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The banality of good : the UN's global fight against human trafficking / Lieba Faier
Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Publisher: Durham : Duke University Press, 2024Description: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 316 pages)ISBN:- 9781478059523
- 9781478094074
- United Nations Convention Against Transnational Organized Crime (2000) Protocols, etc (2000 December 12)
- Human trafficking -- Japan
- Human trafficking victims -- Japan
- Human trafficking (International law)
- Traite des êtres humains - Japon
- Victimes de la traite des êtres humains - Japon
- Traite des êtres humains (Droit international)
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
- 345.52/02551 23/eng/20240317
- K5297.A42003
Contents:
Summary: "The Banality of Good focuses on the contemporary counter-human trafficking efforts of the Japanese government under the umbrella of the United Nations' Trafficking Protocol, a global campaign designed to assist victims of human trafficking. Examining Japan's counter-human trafficking program, known as the Action Plan, Lieba Faier uses Japan as a case study through which she argues against globalization in response to local issues, stating that programs like the Trafficking Protocol erase the history, political and economic inequality, and cultural differences of the very people they are designed to aid. Borrowing from Hannah Arendt's idea of the "banality of evil" as drawn from the trial of leading Nazi Adolf Eichmann, Faier coins the "banality of good," using the phrase to refer to reality of Japan and the UN's response to human trafficking that privileges bureaucracy and compliance over the needs of victims, often resulting in a lower quality of life, repatriation, and even criminalization of human trafficking survivors. The book's early address how this ethically "good" counter-human trafficking project became institutionalized within the United Nations and Japan, resulting in its banality, while later chapters focus on Faier's ethnographic explorations of the work of the Trafficking Protocol and Action Plan as it plays out day-to-day, highlighting the struggles faced by caseworkers attempting to provide direct assistance to those who have been trafficked in Japan"--PPN: PPN: 1916228828Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-94-OAB
A global solution -- The Protocol's compromises -- The institutional life of suffering -- "To Promote the Universal Values of Human Dignity," a Roadmap -- Banal justice -- The need to know -- Funding frustration -- Cruel empowerment -- The misperformance of the Trafficking Protocol, or The less things change, the more they stay the same.
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