Leverhulme Lectures – The Early Evolution of the International Anti-Trafficking Framework
Lecture 1: The Source of Anti-Trafficking
In this first episode, Prof Allain considers the emergence of the white slave traffic as a concept, and its roots in Butler’s campaign to abolish a series of UK Contagious Disease Acts. In seeking to internationalise this abolitionist campaign, she played her part in the 1880 Brussels Affair: the most important manifestation ever of the white slave traffic.
Lecture 2: The Origins of Anti-Trafficking
The origins of anti-trafficking can be traced to the energy released by a series of newspaper articles published in London in 1885. The social panic which followed the Maiden Tribute revelations were successful and led to the establishment of the National Vigilance Association (NVA) to monitor the new criminal law, which in turn created the international anti-trafficking framework.
Lecture 3: Collusion at the League of Nations
Having considered the source and origins of anti-trafficking, in this third episode Prof Allain examines the manner in which the League of Nations wrestled away the white slave traffic framework from France. It was through collusion that the League was able to establish the 1921 Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Women and Children.
Lecture 4: Anti-Trafficking as Trope: The League and International Prostitution
In the final episode of this series considering the early evolution of international anti-trafficking framework, Jean Allain examines how, under the influence of US philanthropy, the League of Nations expanded trafficking beyond its established understanding to engage in a global fight against vice, by targeting international prostitution.
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