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The Banality of Good

Lieba Faier

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  • 336 sidor
  • 2024
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 Japans efforts to enact the UNs counter-trafficking protocol and assist Filipina migrants working in Japans 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 Arendts idea of the banality of evil by coining the titular banality of good to describe the reality of the UNs 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.
  • Författare: Lieba Faier
  • Format: Pocket/Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781478030560
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 336
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-09-27
  • Förlag: Duke University Press