Paper short abstract:

Studies in Brazil point to a discussion that approximates the trafficking of women from prostitution - highly contested. And in an attempt to add and mobilize reflections for such a multifaceted theme, this paper intends to present an ethnography of an event that occurred in the USA in July 2015.

Paper long abstract:

The Forum "Social Transformation to End Exploitation and Trafficking for Sex" brought together academics, feminist leaders, activists, and survivors of trafficking, with the objective of developing a performance performance with survivors of human trafficking. In this convention, topics such as care, reception and perception practices were discussed, elaborated both by the survivors designated at this time as "survivors leaders", and by academic partnerships that work and research on this topic. They presented and discussed the trafficking protocols, emerging challenges, and ways of recognizing the victim, among other contents that orbit the subject. To this end, three "surviving leaders" - nationally recognized in the US - were called to share their experiences, their dramas and their stories.

My proposal is to present categories built / elaborated in this Forum that foster certain practices used in promoting the so-called 'Rescue Industry', at the same time that they mobilize emotionally, both to leverage the collection of financial resources, and to mobilize Subjects for this cause.

This paper is the result of my postdoctoral research at the University of Wisconsin / UW - United States in 2015.