caa a22 4500 44580582X CHVBK 20180317145156.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20111201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10611-011-9335-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10611-011-9335-0 Is there such thing as ‘global sex trafficking'? A patchwork tale on useful (mis)understandings [Elektronische Daten] [Yvon van der Pijl, Brenda Oude Breuil, Dina Siegel] This article intends to respond to a recent call (e.g., Zhang Global Crime 10(3):178-195, 2009; Brunovskis and Surtees International Migration 48(4):1-38, 2010) for more innovative studies and methodologies in order to move beyond the current discourse on human trafficking. We do so by describing three ethnographic fragments on the dynamics of (dealing with) sex trafficking within Europe. The concepts of ‘friction' and ‘collaboration' (Tsing Cultural Anthropology 15(3):327-360, 2000, 2005) are used to analyse these fragments. These concepts refer to creative processes that occur as people interact across differences. They give insight into how universal ideas on freedom and justice enable collaboration between parties involved in fighting human trafficking who do not necessarily share a common goal. We conclude that the presented method of ‘patchwork ethnography' is useful in studying sex trafficking as it implies a strong focus on connections between ‘sites of diverse knowledge', without losing sight of individual stories of people making those connections. ‘Patchwork ethnography' is innovative and it allows researchers to expose and untangle the workings of the supposedly all-powerful phenomenon and the encompassing, uniform, hegemonic discourse surrounding human (sex) trafficking. Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011 van der Pijl Yvon Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Oude Breuil Brenda Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Criminology, Utrecht University, Boothstraat 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Siegel Dina Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Criminology, Utrecht University, Boothstraat 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 56/5(2011-12-01), 567-582 0925-4994 56:5<567 2011 56 10611 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9335-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-011-9335-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- van der Pijl Yvon Department of Cultural Anthropology, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Oude Breuil Brenda Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Criminology, Utrecht University, Boothstraat 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Siegel Dina Willem Pompe Institute for Criminal Law and Criminology, Department of Criminology, Utrecht University, Boothstraat 6, Utrecht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Crime, Law and Social Change Springer Netherlands 56/5(2011-12-01), 567-582 0925-4994 56:5<567 2011 56 10611 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer