Taboo Trades Podcast: Exploitation Creep

Welcome to a very special bonus episode of the Taboo Trades podcast! Today I have a record number of guests – five in total—continuing a discussion that we began at Yale’s Newman Colloquium earlier this summer. We discuss exploitation and trafficking in international human rights law, especially in the context of reproductive and sexual labor. You’ll hear more about that colloquium and that conversation during the podcast. Each guest introduces themselves at the start of the podcast, but you can also read their full bios and a reading list in the show notes.

 

Host: Kim Krawiec, Charles O. Gregory Professor of Law, University of Virginia

Guests:

Janie Chuang, Professor of Law, American University, Washington College of Law

Dina Francesca Haynes, Executive Director, Orville H. Schell, Jr. Center for International Human Rights; Lecturer in Law (spring term), and Research Scholar in Law, Yale University

Joanne Meyerowitz, Arthur Unobskey Professor of History and Professor of American Studies, Yale University

Alice M. Miller, Associate Professor (Adjunct) of Law and Co-Director, Global Health Justice Partnership, Yale University

Mindy Jane Roseman, Director of International Law Programs and Director of the Gruber Program for Global Justice and Women’s Rights, Yale University

Reading List:

Janie A. Chuang

• "Preventing trafficking through new global governance over labor migration."  St. UL Rev.36 (2019): 1027.
• “Exploitation Creep And The Unmaking Of Human Trafficking Law.” The American Journal of International Law, vol. 108, no. 4, 2014, pp. 609–49. JSTOR, https://doi.org/10.5305/amerjintelaw.108.4.0609 . Accessed 13 June 2025.

Dina Haynes

• "Used, abused, arrested and deported: Extending immigration benefits to protect the victims of trafficking and to secure the prosecution of traffickers." Human Rights Quarterly2 (2004): 221-272. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/168121
• "Client-centered human rights advocacy." Clinical L. Rev.13 (2006): 379.
• "Sacrificing women and immigrants on the altar of regressive politics." Human Rights Quarterly4 (2019): 777-822. https://muse.jhu.edu/article/735796

Kimberly D. Krawiec

• Repugnant Work (April 21, 2025). Forthcoming, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Work (Julian Jonker and Grant Rozeboom, eds.), Available at SSRN:https://ssrn.com/abstract=5225038 
• “Markets, Repugnance, and Externalities.” Journal of Institutional Economics19, no. 6 (2023): 944–55. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744137422000157 .

Joanne Meyerowitz

• How Sex Changed: A History of Transsexuality in the United States (Harvard University Press, 2002) https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674013797
• “Transnational Sex and U.S. History,”American Historical Review 114:5 (December 2009), 1273-1286
• “A History of ‘Gender,’” American Historical Review113:5 (December, 2008), 1346-1356

Alice Miller

• Miller, Alice M., and Tara Zivkovic. "Orwellian rights and the UN Trafficking" Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking. Routledge, 2017. 328-341.
• Miller, Alice M., and Mindy J. Roseman. "Sexual and reproductive rights at the United Nations: frustration or fulfilment?." Reproductive health matters38 (2011): 102-118.

 

Mindy Jane Roseman

• Miller, Alice M., and Mindy Jane Roseman, eds.Beyond virtue and vice: rethinking human rights and criminal law. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2019.
• Reichenbach, Laura, and Mindy Jane Roseman, eds. Reproductive health and human rights: the way forward. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011.

Other Authors

EU Directive (2024 Amendment) on Combating Trafficking in Human Beings

 https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1712/oj/eng

Elena Shih, Manufacturing Freedom: Trafficking Rescue, Rehabilitation, and the Slave-Free Good (University of California Press, 2023)