Brown Bag Lunch with Dr. Denise Brennan
Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
Drawing on her new book with Duke University Press with the same title, Dr. Brennan will discuss how survivors of human trafficking struggle to get by and make homes for themselves in the US. She will discuss her long-term ethnographic research on low wage sectors in the US economy – such as fields, factories, and construction – are sites that conceal forced labor.
Dr. Brennan will help us dispel the myth that only sex workers are trafficked, and refer to her previous work on sex tourism in the Dominican Republic. She will help us reflect on why anthropological evidence is not taken as much into account by policy makers as legal evidence.
About the Speaker Series:
Immigration is admittedly an interdisciplinary field of study. Different disciplines bring their own perspective and lens to understand the field and explore public issues. What is the special contribution of anthropology to this interdisciplinary field? The Anthropology of the Immigrant Life Course Research Program, in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Maryland, invites discussion of the anthropological contributions to the interdisciplinary field of migration studies as they intersect with scholarship and policy.
The speaker series will start a conversation with anthropologists of migration studies whose scholarship and practice is located in the DC Metropolitan region. The format is informal and geared towards engaging attendees in dialogue. Dr. Freidenberg will introduce the speakers; ask them to talk about their current work and to help us reflect on the interdisciplinary field from their perspective and practice as trained anthropologists.
Published on Mon, 04/28/2014 - 14:35