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SUMMARY:Departmental Seminar Series: Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic, The Centre f
 or Labour Market Studies, University of Leicester 
DESCRIPTION:Dr Rutvica Andrijasevic, The Centre for Labour Market Studies,
  University of Leicester Title: Sex, Slaves and Citizens: Gender and the P
 olitics of Mobility In this talk I will address the ways in which current 
 reconfiguration of the modes of governing in Europe are playing themselves
  out at the level of the subject and the impact they are having on individ
 ual experience of gender difference and sexuality. The topic through which
  I tackle these issues is that of ‘sex trafficking’. By ground
 ing my analysis in women’s subjectivities and undertaking a detailed
  investigation of women’s migratory projects, their cross-border jou
 rneys, working arrangements with third parties, and tensions that arouse f
 rom women’s attempts to identify as victims, I aim to bring to the f
 ore the relationship between the enactment of mobility at the ‘micro
 ’ level and its unequal distribution at the ‘macro’ leve
 l. I will argue that trafficking discourse and anti-trafficking policies n
 ormalise a differential regime of mobility through which the EU organises 
 access to its labour market and citizenship. With its emphasis on criminal
  organisations and victimised women, the discourse on sex trafficking as t
 he new slave trade depoliticises the debate on migration and labour. It al
 so closes down the possibility for seeing the ways in which migrant women&
 rsquo;s assertion of social positions that are not deemed legitimate for v
 ictims of ‘sex trafficking’ presses onto and reshapes citizens
 hip in Europe.  Rutvica Andrijasevic works at the Centre for Labour M
 arket Studies and School of Management, Leicester University. She is the a
 uthor of "Migration, Agency and Citizenship in Sex Trafficking" (Palgrave,
  2010) and has co-edited with Bridget Anderson a special issue of the jour
 nal Subjectivity entitled "Conflicts of Mobility: Migration, Labour and Po
 litical Subjectivity." Her academic, policy and activist engagements are w
 ith issues of gender, sexuality and citizenship in Europe. She is a member
  of the editorial collective Feminist Review. Chair: Andrew Baldwin
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