Final Activity Report Summary - GOVERNING MOBILITY (Trafficking in Women, Citizenship and Governance in Enlarged Europe)
This project resets the agenda on sex trafficking. Methodologically daring, the project brings postmodern and poststructuralist approaches on migration, labour and political subjectivities to existing studies on European integration, labour markets and gender-based violence. By linking a number of scholarly debates and discursive areas that are not commonly brought together in studies on sex trafficking, the project exposes the link between sex trafficking and the constitution of citizenship and advances a scholarly re-conceptualization of sex trafficking grounded in the particularity of the European situation.
Finally, the project shifts the theorisation of sex trafficking away from the criminalisation paradigm and towards a new theory of agency and citizenship. The outcomes of the project are a manuscript entitled 'Sex moves: Migration, agency and citizenship in sex-trafficking' to be published with Palgrave (2009); a special issue of the 'Subjectivity' journal on migration entitled 'Conflicts of mobility: Migration, labour, and political subjectivities'; British Academy / Association of Commonwealth Universities Grant for International Collaboration to University of Western Sydney for a research project 'Precarious employment. A comparison between the United Kingdom and Australia'; and a lectureship position in politics and international studies with the Open University to develop a new course on citizenship as emerging from the research project 'Enacting European Citizenship', the new Open University-led conducted under the FP7 (please see http://enacting-citizenship.eu/(opens in new window) online).
Finally, the project shifts the theorisation of sex trafficking away from the criminalisation paradigm and towards a new theory of agency and citizenship. The outcomes of the project are a manuscript entitled 'Sex moves: Migration, agency and citizenship in sex-trafficking' to be published with Palgrave (2009); a special issue of the 'Subjectivity' journal on migration entitled 'Conflicts of mobility: Migration, labour, and political subjectivities'; British Academy / Association of Commonwealth Universities Grant for International Collaboration to University of Western Sydney for a research project 'Precarious employment. A comparison between the United Kingdom and Australia'; and a lectureship position in politics and international studies with the Open University to develop a new course on citizenship as emerging from the research project 'Enacting European Citizenship', the new Open University-led conducted under the FP7 (please see http://enacting-citizenship.eu/(opens in new window) online).