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banality of good
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Filipina migration
global governance
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Hannah Arendt
human trafficking
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International Labour Organization ILO
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Japan
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migrant abuse
migrant exploitation
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sex industry
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Trafficking in Persons Report
UN Global Counter-human trafficking campaign
UN Trafficking Protocol
UN Trust Fund for Human Security UNTFHS
UNTFHS-ILO Empowerment Project
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Women Empowerment Program WEP
Product details
- ISBN 9781478030560
- Weight: 499g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2024
- Publisher: Duke University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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In The Banality of Good, Lieba Faier examines why contemporary efforts to curb human trafficking have fallen so spectacularly short of their stated goals despite well-funded campaigns by the United Nations and its member-state governments. Focusing on Japan’s efforts to enact the UN’s counter-trafficking protocol and assist Filipina migrants working in Japan’s sex industry, Faier draws from interviews with NGO caseworkers and government officials to demonstrate how these efforts disregard the needs and perspectives of those they are designed to help. She finds that these campaigns tend to privilege bureaucracies and institutional compliance, resulting in the compromised quality of life, repatriation, and even criminalization of human trafficking survivors. Faier expands on Hannah Arendt’s idea of the “banality of evil” by coining the titular “banality of good” to describe the reality of the UN’s fight against human trafficking. Detailing the protocols that have been put in place and evaluating their enactment, Faier reveals how the continued failure of humanitarian institutions to address structural inequities and colonial history ultimately reinforces the violent status quo they claim to be working to change.
Lieba Faier is Professor of Geography and Gender Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles, and author of Intimate Encounters: Filipina Women and the Remaking of Rural Japan.
