I'd lke to thank Janie Chuang for her excellent post yesterday and follow up by promoting the work of my friend Johanne Vernier (photo at right), currently a doctoral student at the University of Paris I and intern at Echanges et Partenariat in Amsterdam. Johanne's work focuses on the relationship between trafficking, migration and prostitution and the fact that criminal laws in these three areas are at cross purposes and tend to punish the foreign victims of trafficking instead of protecting them from exploitation. According to Johanne, shifting the focus to preventing and punishing exploitation while protecting human dignity would help create a better balance between protected interests and criminal repression. Johanne will be discussing the results of her research at the upcoming 11th Joint Stanford-University of California Law and Colonialism in Africa Symposium, which this year will focus on Trafficking Women and Children after the End of Slavery: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Africa and Beyond (at Stanford, March 19-21). Johanne's work is based on models developed by Mireille Delmas-Marty to describe who in society responds to crime and/or social deviance in light of the interests protected and shows, as Janie's post highlights, that with respect to trafficking, states are often focusing on the wrong behavior for the wrong reasons. A better way to combat trafficking?
I'd lke to thank Janie Chuang for her excellent post yesterday and follow up by promoting the work of my friend Johanne Vernier (photo at right), currently a doctoral student at the University of Paris I and intern at Echanges et Partenariat in Amsterdam. Johanne's work focuses on the relationship between trafficking, migration and prostitution and the fact that criminal laws in these three areas are at cross purposes and tend to punish the foreign victims of trafficking instead of protecting them from exploitation. According to Johanne, shifting the focus to preventing and punishing exploitation while protecting human dignity would help create a better balance between protected interests and criminal repression. Johanne will be discussing the results of her research at the upcoming 11th Joint Stanford-University of California Law and Colonialism in Africa Symposium, which this year will focus on Trafficking Women and Children after the End of Slavery: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from Africa and Beyond (at Stanford, March 19-21). Johanne's work is based on models developed by Mireille Delmas-Marty to describe who in society responds to crime and/or social deviance in light of the interests protected and shows, as Janie's post highlights, that with respect to trafficking, states are often focusing on the wrong behavior for the wrong reasons. 
