Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in Historical Perspective

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1 Trafficking, Smuggling and Illicit Migration in Historical Perspective Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London, June 18-20, 2015 *PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME* Thursday, 18 June 11:30-1:00 Registration and poster sessions set up Lunch on your own 1:00 Panel 1: Girl Traffic, White Slaves, and Circulating Narratives: Civil Society Discourses and Activism Rachel Attwood (Sussex) Unwelcome Departures? Foreign Jews, British Jews, and Sex Trafficking in an Age of Mass Migration, Tara Suri (Harvard) Cosmopolitan Visions and the Traffic in Women: the Women s Indian Association, Stephanie Skier (University of Michigan) The Concept of Mädchenhandel in Imperial Germany 2:30-3:00 Coffee and poster sessions 3:00-4:30 Panel 2: Conceptual and Methodological Challenges of Historical Trafficking Philippa Hetherington (University of Sydney) A View from the Russian Archives: Can the Trafficked Subaltern Speak

2 Paul Knepper (Sheffield) The Jazz Singer: Microhistory and the International Traffic in Women Petra de Vries (Amsterdam) - Contested History, Contested Field 4:45-6:15 Panel 3: International Governance: Views from Geneva Chair: Jessica Pliley Eva Payne (Harvard University) From the Dance Halls of Marseille to the Brothels of Rio: American Women and the League of Nations Enquiry into the Traffic in Women and Children Sonja Dolinsek (University of Erfurt, Germany) Debates on Prostitution and Traffic in Women in International Organizations and Transnational NGOs ( ) Eileen Boris (University of California, Santa Barbara) Female Emigrants, Domestic Workers, and Sexual Danger: The International Labor Organization and the Trafficked Woman 6:15-7:15 Wine reception Dinner on your own FRIDAY, 19 JUNE 9:30-11:00 Panel 4: Tracing Trafficking Networks from Eastern Europe and Beyond Nancy M. Wingfield (Northern Illinois University) Prostitution, Illicit Migration, and White Slaving on the Austrian Riviera Elizabeth Bishop (Texas State University) Trafficking, Smuggling, and Illicit Migration in Hashemite Iraq Keeley Stauter-Halstead (University of Illinois at Chicago) Sex Trafficking and Labour Migration: Genesis of a Panic in Eastern Europe 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:30 Panel 5: Tracing Clandestine Networks

3 Maria Blackwood (Harvard University) Polish Illegal Migration into the Soviet Union: A View from Soviet Secret Police Files Victor Pereira (Université de Pau et des Pays de l Adour) The Actors of the Portuguese Illegal Migration to France between 1957 and :30-1:30 Lunch and viewing posters 1:30-3:30 Panel 6: Implementing Anti-Sex Trafficking Laws: Adventures in State Building Chair Julia Laite Julia Martinez (University of Wollongong) Abolition and Immigration Restriction: The Deportation of Japanese Karayuki-san from Australia in the First Half of the 20th Century. Jessica R. Pliley (Texas State University) Lessons of Enforcement: The FBI, the White Slave Traffic Act, and Any Other Immoral Purpose Kate Marsh (University of Liverpool) Le Havre Buenos Aires: The White Slave Trade and Transatlantic Female Migration Torsten Feys (FWO/Ghent University) Gatecrashers or Gatekeepers? The Role of Shipping Companies in Circumventing and Enforcing Migration Laws, :30-3:45 Coffee 3:45-5:15 Panel 7: Smuggling & Sex Work Ira Rodulgina (Higher School of Economics) Selling Sex in Saint Petersburg in the Middle of the 18th Century Jean Pfaelzer (University of Delaware) Human Trafficking in the American West: The Importation of Females in Bulk Pamela Cox (University of Essex) & Amanda Wilkinson (University of Essex) Trafficking and the High Class Sex Trade in Mid-Nineteenth Century London 7:00 Conference Dinner (charge TBC) SATURDAY, JUNE 20 9:30-11:00 Panel 8: Marriage and Illicit Migration

4 Mir Yarfitz (Wake Forest University) White Slave Wives and Jewish Husbands on the Road to Buenos Aires: Jewish Marriage and Migration Strategies in the Interwar Sex Traffic Battles Julia Laite (University of London, Birkbeck) Marriages of Convenience in 1930s Britain Irene Messinger (University of Vienna) Fictitious Marriage as Illicit Strategy to Escape the Nazi Regime 11:00-11:15 Coffee 11:15-12:15 Panel 9: Beyond Trafficking : Gender, Culture, and Illicit Migration in the Recent Past Ann De Shalit (Ryerson University, Toronto) & Katrin Roots (York University, Toronto) Evidence that Evidence Doesn t Matter: Contemporary and Historical Analysis of Human Trafficking in Canada Jacqueline Berman (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Disappeared and Indeterminate: Human Trafficking, Globalized Populations, and Acting Otherwise at Europe s Limit 12:15-1:00 Lunch 1:00-2:30 Panel 10: Slavery, Trafficking, and Smuggling: Crossing Conceptual Borders Faith Marchal (Birkbeck College) Reverse-trafficking : The Underground Railroad as an Early Example of Human Rights Activism Joel Quirk (University of the Witwatersrand) Supplicants and Savoirs: The History and Legacies of Anti-Slavery Activism in Africa Deliana Popova (University of Hamburg) The Rhetorical Conflation of Trafficking and Slavery in the Context of Securitization 2:30-4:00 WORKSHOP--divide into four 'theme' groups for discussion of panels and posters 4:00-5:00 Final discussion/roundup/future networks CONFERENCE END

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