Norwegian policy linked arranged marriage to sex trafficking, inverting honor-claims

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

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: The figure of the young woman whose arranged marriage is officially suspected of being a trafficking pipeline, oscillating between ‘protected honor’ and ‘trafficked commodity’ in state discourse, is a potent fiction premise.
• SHARE: For someone tracking far-right integration-policy discourse in Scandinavia: this inverse of the honor narrative is a specifically documented Norwegian policy move.