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52 Wake Forest L. Rev. 477 (2017)
Fighting Human Trafficking Today: Moral Panics, Zombie Data, and the Seduction of Rescue

handle is hein.journals/wflr52 and id is 493 raw text is: FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING TODAY: MORAL PANICS, ZOMBIE DATA, AND THE SEDUCTION OF RESCUE Denise Brennan* INTRODUCTION Trafficking is one of the most pressing and visible human rights issues of the day. It headlines news stories.' It has led to new laws and policies in the United States and around the world.2 It has inspired new organizations,3 anointed new experts, and launched careers.4 It has also generated a lot of funding-from both government coffers and private citizens' wallets.5 * Denise Brennan is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University. She is the author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic-a book that explores how Dominican women strategically use the sex sector to meet European tourists, feign love, and legally migrate off the island through marriage. Professor Brennan founded the Trafficking Survivor Leadership Training Fund, to which all royalties from Life Interrupted are donated. 1. E.g., Jacey Fortin, Flight Attendants Fight Human Trafficking with Eyes in the Sky, N.Y. TIMEs (Feb. 7,-2017), https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07 /us/flight-attendants-human-trafficking.html; Roxana Popescu, Paradise Lost: Sex Trafficking in Hawaii, AL JAZEERA (Jan. 22, 2016), http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/01/paradise-lost-sex-trafficking -hawaii-160120111423579.html. 2. E.g., Jesse Byrnes, Obama Signs Anti-Trafficking Bill into Law, HILL (May 29, 2015, 7:02 PM), http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room /news/243519-obama-signs-anti-trafficking-law; Haiti Enacts World's Newest Anti-Trafficking Law, FREE SLAVES (Aug. 11, 2014), http://www.freetheslaves.net/haiti-enacts-worlds-newest-anti-trafficking-law/. 3. E.g., Tom Embury-Dennis, Ashton Kutcher's Organisation Identifies 2,000 Child Victims of Trafficking in Six Months, INDEPENDENT (Feb. 16, 2017, 4:46 PM), http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ashton-kutcher -child-sex-exploitation-victims-thorn-digital-defenders-of-children-us-senate -hearing-a7583266.html; Kimberly Escobar, Maryland has Seen 66 Human Trafficking Cases in 2016. This Center Aims to Help Victims, DIAMONDBACK (Sept. 21, 2016), http://www.dbknews.com/2016/09/22/safe-center-umd-umb -human-trafficking/. 4. See Emma Llans6, Listening to the Experts on Human Trafficking, CTR. FOR DEMOCRACY & TECH. (Feb. 25, 2015), https://cdt.org/blog/listening-to-the -experts-on-human-trafficking/. 5. Janie A. Chuang, Giving As Governance? Philanthrocapitalism and Modern-Day Slavery Abolitionism, 62 UCLA L. REV. 1516, 1531 (2015); Sue- Lynn Moses, Funding the New Abolitionism: Who's Giving to 477

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