| ID | 184319 |
| Title Proper | Human Trafficking and Jurisdictional Exceptionalism in the Global Fishing Industry |
| Other Title Information | a Case Study of Singapore |
| Language | ENG |
| Author | Yea, Sallie |
| Summary / Abstract (Note) | This paper traces emerging legal-spatial practices of exclusion of trafficked migrant fishers from the human and labour rights protections of anti-trafficking. I introduce the idea of jurisdictional exceptionalism – that is practices that invoke particular demarcations of sovereignty to avoid protection responsibilities – to conceptualise these geographies of exclusion. Singapore, as a transit state for trafficked migrant fishers and location of labour agencies managing their contracts, is drawn on to illustrate one key spatial tactic of jurisdictional exceptionalism; namely, deflection. The discussion engages with recent critical and feminist geopolitical insights concerning the production and perpetuation of (in)security through legal-geographical exclusions. |
| `In' analytical Note | Geopolitics Vol. 27, No.1; Jan-Feb 2022: p.238-259 |
| Journal Source | Geopolitics Vol: 27 No 1 |
| Key Words | Global Fishing Industry ; Case Study of Singapore |