Immoral Traffic

Auteur

Vibhuti Ramachandran is an Assistant Professor of Global and International Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Her work connects the anthropology of law, NGOs, and the Indian state, and her broader interests include gender and sexuality,care and punishment, and labor and migration. The University of California's Hellman Fellowship supported the completion of this book.

Contenu

1. Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India; 2. A Tale of Two Rescues: Navigating Victimhood and the Politics of Intervention; 3. 'These girls never give statements:' 'Victim-Witness Testimony' in a Delhi Court; 4. Proving Prostitution: Evidence and Respectability in a Mumbai Court; 5. 'She is not revealing anything:' Navigating Inquiries, Documents, and Kinship in a Mumbai Court; 6. From 'House of Horrors' to 'Sensitive' Governance: Shelter Detention in Mumbai; Conclusion: The ITPA and Beyond.