The ITPA and Beyond
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 March 2025
The author reflects on some significant legal and policy developments – on the newly expanded scope of anti-trafficking, on the rehabilitation of sex workers, and on the escalated targeting of Bangladeshi migrants – that have emerged since her ethnographic research. Through these updates, she revisits some of the key themes outlined in the Introduction and tracked through the book: the excess of legality around the governance of prostitution and trafficking in India, the central role played by NGOs in these forms of governance, and the impact of these forms of governance on the women they target. It is argued that even as the legal framework of anti-trafficking now exceeds that of anti-prostitution, they continue to remain deeply connected, through the work of anti-trafficking NGOs, and through existing models of intervention established under India’s anti-prostitution law (the ITPA). The author also discusses how the anti-immigrant sentiments against Bangladeshi women that shaped the implementation of anti-prostitution and anti-trafficking imperatives during her research have been greatly magnified and exacerbated by India’s Hindu right wing-led government in the decade since.
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