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Fukushima, A.I., Nilson, J., & Richards, K. (2024). Seeing Race & Sexuality: Child Welfare & Forced Labor.” Arkansas Law Review 77, 2: 283 – 312.
“Seeing Race & Sexuality: Child Welfare & Forced Labor” co-authored by Dr. Annie Isabel Fukushima, Jens Nilson, and Kaden Richards examines how child welfare responds to children who are forced to labor through a case study of California. Using an intersectional framework, the authors argue that a conceptualization of current sociolegal responses to human trafficking cannot be delinked from racialized and sexualized forms of governmentality. In contrast to the plethora of research on trafficking into sexual economies, child labor trafficking into commercial industries beyond sex industries is viewed as hidden or understudied. Few studies examine child welfare responses to child labor trafficking by examining the centrality of race and sexuality in sociolegal responses; therefore, this article offers a unique intellectual and policy theoretical intervention. To do so, this study employed mixed-methods analysis of case study analysis of child welfare responses to child labor trafficking in California. Data for this study was gathered between 2019 and 2021, including surveys (n=1,570) and structured interviews (n=11).
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Issue emerged from the Arkansas Law Review Symposium: Children at Work (2023)
Annie Isabel Fukushima 