Anti-trafficking policy linked arranged marriage to prostitution

Evidence

Finally, in its 2003–5 action plan for ‘Combating Trafficking in Women and Children,’ the government raised the possibility that the purpose of some arranged marriages was to bring into the country women who, with their children, were to be forced into prostitution. Contradicting the dominant notion of Muslim communities protecting the ‘honour’ of their girls and women, this latter suggestion now links Muslim communities to trafficking. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 313 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Most of all, when a practice is condemned so unequivocally as originating in culture, there is little space left to explore how arranged and forced marriages may be understood both as an internal community practice and as a practice profoundly affected by a community’s sense of peril. — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 302 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Arranged and forced marriages fall on a single continuum between consent and coercion; Norwegian policy linked arranged marriage to sex trafficking, inverting honor-claims — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 313; Anti-Muslim texts conflate arranged marriage with forced marriage to indict migrant culture — Sherene Razack, Casting Out: The Eviction of Muslims…, 263 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Norwegian policy linked arranged marriage to sex trafficking, inverting honor-claims #corroborates (0.95) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 313
• Culture-centric condemnation closes off how community peril shapes arranged marriage #complicates (0.78) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 302