Anti-Trafficking Education from Workers and Movements for Rights and Justice

The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking. Thus, there is a need to analyse the formalised and informalised practices that facilitate teaching and learning about trafficking. At its worst, anti-trafficking education steeped in misinformation and myths fails to contextualise and complicate trafficking, which can lead to dehumanisation and violence. At its best, anti-trafficking education can encourage and inform efforts to create structural change, social justice, and individual empowerment.
At this event, educators from universities, non-government organisations, and worker associations will discuss one central question: What would it take for anti-trafficking education to be in the service of human rights, economic justice, labour rights, and public health?

Speakers:
Annie Isabel Fukushima, University of Utah, USA
Bandana Pattanaik, Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Thailand
Jennifer Suchland, Ohio State University, USA
Mariah Grant, Sex Workers Project at Urban Justice Center USA
Nalini Nayak, Self Employed Women’s Association, Kerala, India

Moderator: Annie Hill, University of Texas at Austin, USA

Introduction by Borislav Gerasimov, Anti-Trafficking Review/Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women, Thailand