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Learn more. DOI: Sverre Molland. Over the last two decades, increasing attention has been given to trafficking in persons globally. Governments, international organisations and the media generally assume that trafficking is immensely profitable.
This paper problematises this assumption in light of ethnographic research within the sex industry along the Thai-Lao border. It argues that the cross-border recruitment of Lao women into the Thai sex industry constitutes a mixture of capitalist logic and patron-client relationships.
It is therefore not possible, as some anti-trafficking programs attempt to do, to read probabilities of trafficking out of mechanical models of profitability and unilateral maximisation of social actors. Content uploaded by Sverre Molland. Author content All content in this area was uploaded by Sverre Molland on Aug 04, Content may be subject to copyright. This article may be used for research, teaching and private study purposes. Any substantial or. The publisher does not give any warranty express or implied or make any representation that the contents.
