Tráfico internacional de mulheres na fronteira e seu enfrentamento sob uma perspectiva interseccional

Abstract

International trafficking in women as a border phenomenon in Brazil got significant prominence with the Diagnosis About Human Trafficking in the Border Areas under the Strategic Border Plan and the National Strategy for Public Security Border (ENAFRON). From the qualitative survey of data in the Brazilian border states and cities and also from the discourses provided by the document, it is possible to understand the region peculiarities and, therefore, the need to build specific policies that take into account the several forms of experiences and trajectories experienced by border women, migrants, sex workers, and so on. This paper was developed based on a bibliographic search about the formation process of national states, bordering, the multidimensionalisation of security issues and the implications globalization causes in the construction of agents identity crossed by social inequalities enclosing gender, race, class, ethnicity, nationality and sexuality. From the analysis of a specific case of international trafficking in people for sexual exploitation reported in Dourados, border city of the state of Mato Grosso do Sul with Paraguay, I try to understand how the several forms of women's agency are articulated in the process of trafficking in people, in migratory movements and in sex work. By taking into account the relations of affection and reciprocity established in relations of trust, it will be possible to reverse the repressive logic that criminalizes migrant women, re-victimises women in trafficking situations and blames sex workers.