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Dr. Elena Shih
Manning Assistant Professor of American Studies and Ethnic Studies at Brown University

March 18^th 2025, 4PM EST
IGSF, Seminar room, 2^nd floor
3487 Peel Street

Sex worker rescue programs have become a core focus of the global movement to combat human trafficking. While these rehabilitation programs promise freedom from enslavement and redemptive wages for former sex workers, such organizations actually propagate a moral economy of low-wage women鈥檚 work that obfuscates relations of race, gender, national power, and inequality. Manufacturing Freedom is an ethnographic exploration of two American organizations that offer vocational training in jewelry production to women migrants in China and Thailand as a path out of sex work. In this innovative study, Elena Shih argues that anti-trafficking rescue and rehabilitation projects profit off persistent labor abuse of women workers and imagined by savvily marketed narratives of redemption.

This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for Gender, Sexuality, and Feminist Studies.