Download PDF by Pardis Mahdavi: Gridlock: Labor, Migration, and Human Trafficking in Dubai

The photos of human trafficking are all too frequently diminished to media stories of helpless younger women taken through seriously accented, dark-skinned captors—but the truth is a much cry from this stereotype. within the center East, Dubai has been accused of being a hotbed of trafficking. Pardis Mahdavi, even though, attracts a extra advanced and extra own photo of this urban packed with migrants. now not all migrant staff are trapped, tricked, and abused. Like a person else, they make offerings to raised their lives, even though the chance of finishing up in undesirable events is excessive.

Legislators hoping to wrestle human trafficking concentration seriously on girls and intercourse paintings, yet there's actual strength for abuse of either female and male migrants in a number of parts of employment—whether in the street, in a box, at a cafe, or at a persons residence. Gridlock explores how migrants' genuine reviews in Dubai distinction with the common discussions—and worldwide ethical panic—about human trafficking.

Mahdavi powerfully contrasts migrants' personal tales with interviews with U.S. coverage makers, revealing the gaping disconnect among guidelines on human trafficking and the realities of pressured hard work and migration within the Persian Gulf. To paintings towards fixing this worldwide challenge, we have to be sincere approximately what trafficking is—and is not—and to eventually get earlier the stereotypes approximately trafficked individuals in an effort to rather comprehend the demanding situations migrant employees reside via each day.