![]() See, e.g., Jacqueline Berman, “The Left, the Right, and the Prostitute: The Making of U.S. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. The resultant Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 set the parameters for the anti-trafficking initiatives of not only the next two presidential administrations, but also for the host of countries pressured by the US government and transnational civil society to improve their standing in the TVPA-mandated annual Trafficking in Persons (TIP) Report’s ranking of international anti-trafficking efforts. Trafficking-understood primarily as the international transportation of women and children for forced prostitution-was characterized as a uniquely deplorable abuse of human rights, and allusions to the historic trans-Atlantic slave trade underscored demands for the United States to take leadership of global efforts to eradicate the problem. The chapter finds that trafficking and anti-trafficking were constructed in gendered and racialized terms. From 1998 to 2000, members of Congress, senior officials in the Clinton administration, and a wide range of highly active members of civil society attempted to craft a comprehensive federal response to human trafficking both within the United States and abroad. This chapter sets the stage for a genealogy of anti-trafficking politics in the United States.
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