Since the late 1990s, it has been impossible for scholars of sex work not to engage with the global sex panic around trafficking. Trafficking was (and continues to be) associated solely with trafficking for sex work and with sex work itself. While I was initially interested in the sexual politics of anti-trafficking discourse, I have since written on the transnational legal order that has emerged around trafficking, and have proposed a development approach to trafficking that elaborates on how countries of the Global South understand SDG8.7 devoted to the elimination of trafficking.
I have for the past few years written about anti-trafficking law and policy in the UK and India. More details on my public engagement and advocacy work is shown here.
Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery.
Cambridge University Press, Law and Society Series (2017).
Reviews
- Social & Legal Studies, 2019.
Journal Articles
- Kotiswaran, P. (2019). Trafficking: A Development Approach. Current Legal Problems. 72(1), 375–416.
- Kotiswaran, P. (2018). Trafficking: A Development Approach. Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 4/2019.
- Kotiswaran, P. and Palmer, N. (2015). Rethinking the International Law of Crime: Provocations from Transnational Legal Studies. Transnational Legal Theory. 6(1), 55-88.
- Kotiswaran, P. (2015). Protocol at the Crossroads: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Law from an Indian labor law perspective. Anti-Trafficking Review. 4, 33-55. Special Issue on ‘15 Years of the UN Trafficking Protocol’.
- Kotiswaran, P. (2012). Vulnerability in Domestic Discourses on Trafficking: Reflections on the Indian Experience in a Special Issue on “Sex Work and the Regulation of Vulnerability(ies)” Vanessa Munro and Sharron FitzGerald (ed.). Feminist Legal Studies. 20(3), 245-262.
- Kotiswaran, P. (2014). Beyond Sexual Humanitarianism: A Post Colonial Approach to Anti-Trafficking Law. UC Irvine Law Review. 4(1), 353-406.
Interviews
Oishik Sircar (2019) The happy and anxious lives of (feminist) legal scholarship: an interview with Prabha Kotiswaran. Jindal Global Law Review. 10, 303–320.
Talks
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