Life Interrupted
Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States
by Denise Brennan
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Pub Date Mar 14 2014 | Archive Date Mar 01 2014
Duke University Press | Duke University Press Books
Description
Life Interrupted introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and women, Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts to global economic inequities and under-regulated and unprotected workplaces that routinely exploit migrant laborers in the United States. Brennan contends that today's punitive immigration policies undermine efforts to fight trafficking. While many believe trafficking happens only in the sex trade, Brennan shows that across low-wage labor sectors—in fields, in factories, and on construction sites—widespread exploitation can lead to and conceal forced labor. Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.
Denise Brennan is Associate Professor and Chair of Anthropology at Georgetown University, where she is a Faculty Fellow with the Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor. She is the author of What's Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic, also published by Duke University Press.
Advance Praise
"Life Interrupted is a powerful investigation of the often invisible exploitation of migrants—whether on farms, in factories, or in domestic work. The first-hand accounts of trafficking paint a vivid and painful picture of the trauma and cruelty of forced labor and the struggle of these migrants to rebuild their lives afterward. These very personal histories shed light on lives in the shadows of our globalized economy. Life Interrupted is a must-read for anyone who cares about fairness and justice for workers."—Filmmaker, Activist Morgan Spurlock (Director of Super Size Me, Executive Producer/Host CNN’s Inside Man).
"Denise Brennan makes it crystal clear that forced labor isn't 'over there.' It is right here. One of the many strengths of this fine ethnography is its letting us see how those women and men who have managed to escape such acute exploitation go about rebuilding their lives, step-by-difficult-step."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Seriously! Investigating Crashes and Crises as if Women Mattered
"Denise Brennan's Life Interrupted is a wonderful synthesis of analysis and empathy. Based on extensive fieldwork, Brennan's valuable book is part of a new wave of scholarship into the darkest side of the world's political economy, an important corrective to celebratory odes to 'globalization' and 'cosmopolitanism' that pass for critical thinking."—Greg Grandin, author of Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford's Forgotten Jungle City
"Denise Brennan's intimate conversations with survivors of forced labor in the U.S. puts the human back into 'human trafficking.' Introducing us to the trafficking survivors next door, Brennan steers us away from the sensationalism of sex trafficking and toward the real—and much bigger—story of how the ordinary exploitation of all kinds of migrant workers leads to abuse, violence, and forced labor. Readable, personal, and authoritative, Life Interrupted takes us into the legal limbo where 'trafficked persons' linger after their escape from bondage. No one knows more about this urgent issue than Denise Brennan."—Cindy Hahamovitch, author of No Man's Land: Jamaican Guestworkers in America and the Global History of Deportable Labor
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780822356332 |
| PRICE | $23.95 (USD) |
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