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The Rhetoric of Modern-Day Slavery Analogical Links and Historical Kinks in the United Kingdom’s Anti-Trafficking Plan Annie Hill Introduction After the European Union’s largest expansion in 2004, the United Kingdom shifted to a closed-door migration policy toward East Europe, citing human trafficking as a reason for sealing its borders. The Home Office and Scottish Executive introduced an anti-trafficking agenda with the UK Action Plan on Tackling Human Trafficking , which defines human trafficking as “modern-day slavery.” The plan applauds the abolition of the slave trade in 1807, positioning the United Kingdom as ready to revive its abolitionist role in 2007. Trafficking rhetoric asserts the state is acting against a foreign threat and visualizes that threat via representations of East Europeans. Migration is claimed to cloak the crime of trafficking, which endangers migrants, whose movement must be arrested, and threatens Britain, which must be defended from slavery’s sudden arrival. Trafficking rhetoric creates a discursive context wherein the British government addresses how to control migrants (while appearing to talk about something else) and contain migration (while appearing to target something else). As Sara Ahmed explains, “immigration is a useful narrative because it is about race [but appears] not to be about
philoSOPHIA – State University of New York Press
Published: Dec 28, 2017
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