Panics without Borders: How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking

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Gregory Mitchell

Panics without Borders

How Global Sporting Events Drive Myths about Sex Trafficking

Gregory Mitchell

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University of California Press
29 November 2022

Social issues & processes; Gender studies, gender groups; Ethnic studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Sexual behaviour

Series: New Sexual Worlds

We are living in a time of great panic about “sex trafficking”—an idea whose meaning has been expanded beyond any real usefulness by evangelicals, conspiracy theorists, anti-prostitution feminists, and politicians with their own agendas. This is especially visible during events like the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games, when claims circulate that as many as 40,000 women and girls will be sex trafficked. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Brazil as well as interviews with sex workers, policymakers, missionaries, and activists in Russia, Qatar, Japan, the UK, and South Africa, Gregory Mitchell shows that despite such baseless statistical claims, sex trafficking never increases as a result of these events. However, police violence against sex workers always does.

While advocates have long decried this myth, Mitchell follows the discourse across host countries to ask why this panic so easily embeds during these mega-events. What fears animate it? Who profits? He charts the move of sex trafficking into the realm of the spectacular—street protests, awareness-raising campaigns, telenovelas, social media, and celebrity spokespeople—where it spreads across borders. This trend is dangerous because these events happen in moments of nationalist fervor during which fears of foreigners and migrants are heightened and easily exploited to frightening ends.

By: Gregory Mitchell
Imprint: University of California Press
Country of Publication: United States
Volume: 1
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 363g
ISBN: 9780520381773
ISBN 10: 0520381777
Series: New Sexual Worlds
Pages: 318
Publication Date: 29 November 2022
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Gregory Mitchell is Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Williams College and author of Tourist Attractions: Performing Race and Masculinity in Brazil's Sexual Economy.