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Cultural depictions of the trade of humans
Depictions of
human trafficking in media dramatize the illegal trade of human beings for the purposes of reproductive slavery, commercial
sexual exploitation ,
forced labor , or a modern-day form of
slavery . Human trafficking and its popular conception have been the subject and inspiration for popular culture and media of many kinds.
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[5] Media attention to human trafficking in the
United States affects the social framing of the issue and in turn influences legal responses and remedies.
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Film depictions of human trafficking have been criticized for sensationalizing "exploitation tropes".
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References
^ Hackett, Jon (6 December 2022),
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^ Plambech, Sine (30 September 2016).
"The Art of the Possible: Making films on sex work migration and human trafficking" . Anti-Trafficking Review (7): 182–199.
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^ Yea, Sallie (2020), Yea, Sallie (ed.),
"Girls on Film: Framing Human Trafficking Through Film and the Cinema" , Paved with Good Intentions? Human Trafficking and the Anti-trafficking Movement in Singapore , Singapore: Springer, pp. 59–86,
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^ Austin, Rachel; Farrell, Amy (26 April 2017),
"Human Trafficking and the Media in the United States" , Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Criminology and Criminal Justice ,
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^ Bickford, Donna M. (2 January 2018).
"Hell Gate: The Implications of Representations of Human Trafficking in Popular Culture" . Journal of Human Trafficking . 4 (1): 96–99.
doi :
10.1080/23322705.2018.1423453 .
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2332-2705 .
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158797115 .
^ Kinney, Edith (2015), Guia, Maria João (ed.),
"Victims, Villains, and Valiant Rescuers: Unpacking Sociolegal Constructions of Human Trafficking and Crimmigration in Popular Culture" , The Illegal Business of Human Trafficking , Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp. 87–108,
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^ Berlatsky, Noah (10 June 2014).
"Hollywood's dangerous obsession with sex trafficking" . Salon . Retrieved 16 August 2023 .