Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports

Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports

This article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitati...

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Main Author: Elena Krsmanovic
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women 2021-04-01
Series:Anti-Trafficking Review
Subjects:
child trafficking
child sexual exploitation
uk
differential treatment of minor victims based on their nationality
Online Access:https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/539
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spelling doaj-2155b398007942be986dc13f87401b772021-05-07T03:51:44ZengGlobal Alliance Against Traffic in WomenAnti-Trafficking Review2286-75112287-01132021-04-0116698510.14197/atr.201221165487Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reportsElena KrsmanovicThis article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitation cases as occurrences of human trafficking shows that they bank on the motifs from the historical white slavery myth. Thereby, these articles endorse the stereotypes of white victim and foreign trafficker and obscure the diversity of trafficking victims, perpetrators, and experiences. Furthermore, comparison between media reports focusing on cases involving British minors, on the one hand, and minors from abroad, on the other hand, reveals that only the former problematise inadequate victim assistance and systemic failures in dealing with sexual exploitation of minors. This leaves structural causes of child trafficking unaddressed, promotes differential treatment of victims based on their nationality, and stigmatises whole communities as immoral and crime-prone.https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/539child traffickingchild sexual exploitationukdifferential treatment of minor victims based on their nationality
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Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
Anti-Trafficking Review
child trafficking
child sexual exploitation
uk
differential treatment of minor victims based on their nationality
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title Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
title_short Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
title_full Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
title_fullStr Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
title_full_unstemmed Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports
title_sort child trafficking vs. child sexual exploitation: critical reflection on the uk media reports
publisher Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women
series Anti-Trafficking Review
issn 2286-7511
2287-0113
publishDate 2021-04-01
description This article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitation cases as occurrences of human trafficking shows that they bank on the motifs from the historical white slavery myth. Thereby, these articles endorse the stereotypes of white victim and foreign trafficker and obscure the diversity of trafficking victims, perpetrators, and experiences. Furthermore, comparison between media reports focusing on cases involving British minors, on the one hand, and minors from abroad, on the other hand, reveals that only the former problematise inadequate victim assistance and systemic failures in dealing with sexual exploitation of minors. This leaves structural causes of child trafficking unaddressed, promotes differential treatment of victims based on their nationality, and stigmatises whole communities as immoral and crime-prone.
topic child trafficking
child sexual exploitation
uk
differential treatment of minor victims based on their nationality
url https://www.antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/atrjournal/article/view/539
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