Abstract

VARELA, Cecilia Inés  and  GONZALEZ, Felipe. Traficking in numbers: "Disappeared" and "Rescued" in the construction of human traficking as a public problem in Argentina. Apunt. investig. CECYP [online]. 2015, n.26. ISSN 1851-9814.

The turn of the 21st century has seen the emergence of a global campaign against human trafficking with a strong focus on different modalities of commercial sex. Both at the global and local levels the construction of human trafficking as a public problem has relied on the strategic production and dissemination of a series of numbers and statistics aiming, on one side, to compel public attention to the problem, and on the other side, to publicize government actions in the fight against trafficking. In this pa-per we propose an analysis of the construction of human trafficking as a public problem in Argentina describing the politics of numbers used by non-governmental organizations and government agencies. We show the different operations used by these actors to manufacture and disseminate these numbers, and how these process responds to specific political com-mitments and interests.

Keywords : Campaigns; human trafficking; politics of numbers; sexual market..

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