@article { , title = {Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance}, abstract = {Dominant anti-trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adequate response to the interplay between technology, trafficking and anti-trafficking. This article explores different levels of analysis and the interplay between human trafficking and technology. We argue for a shift from policy discourses with a very limited focus on crime and victimisation to more systemic understandings of trafficking and more robust micro-analyses of trafficking and everyday life. The article calls for an agnotological understanding of policy responses to trafficking and technology: these depend upon the production of ignorance. We critique limitations in policy understandings of trafficking-related aspects of online spaces, and argue for better engagement with online networks. We conclude that there is a need to move beyond a focus on “new” technology and exceptionalist claims about “modern slavery” towards greater attention to everyday exploitation within neoliberalism.}, doi = {10.1111/anti.12213}, issn = {0066-4812}, issue = {3}, journal = {Antipode}, pages = {665-684}, publicationstatus = {Published}, publisher = {Wiley}, url = {http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/833920}, volume = {48}, keyword = {362 Social welfare problems & services, HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare, Migration and Mobility, Social Sciences Research Group, Health, agnotology, ignorance, internet, networks, neoliberalism, technology, trafficking in human beings}, year = {2016}, author = {Mendel, Jonathan and Sharapov, Kiril} }