The Trafficking of Women in Thailand

Research and Scholarship

A doctoral student at the University of Southern California's Annenberg School for Communication & Journalism and conversationally fluent speaker of the Thai language, Erin studies communication issues related to the trafficking of women in Thailand. Erin has worked with anti-trafficking NGOs and in collaboration with the U.S. Department of State to research NGO communications processes in Southeast Asia, and her writing has been published in a number of international academic journals An award-winning composer, musician and playwright, Erin is also researching the use of the performing arts as a tool for political communication. Erin holds a BA in music composition from Sarah Lawrence College and a masters in public diplomacy from USC's Annenberg School. For more information about her academic projects, visit this site

Publications

• Trafficking and Prostitution in Thailand: Re-Conceptualizing International Law in the Age of Globalization. (2012). Forthcoming in Liamputtong, Pranee, Ed., Thailand Today: Political and Social Perspectives. Netherlands: Springer.
• National identity, the shan, and child trafficking in northern Thailand: The case of D.E.P.D.C. (2010). Shan and Beyond: essays on Shan Archaeology, Anthropology, History, Politics, Religion, and Human Rights. Bangkok: Institute of Asian Studies, Chulalongkorn University.
• NGO Narratives in the Global Public Sphere. (2011). The International Journal of Diversity in Organizations, Communities and Nations. 2011. Illinois: Common Ground. Online Publication
• Wendy S. Hesford, Spectacular Rhetorics: Human Rights Visions, Recognitions, Feminisms. International Journal of Communication 5 (2011). Accessible online here.

Lecture: The Global Trade in Women

In her one-hour talk, scholar and writer Erin Kamler discusses human trafficking and its effect on women across the globe. Situating her analysis in the context of globalization, Erin explains how neoliberal capitalist practices and crises' on the international stage have led to the rise of sex tourism and exploitation of women's labor in the global criminal economy Based on her extensive fieldwork in Thailand -- which includes interviews with members of the anti-trafficking NGO community, government and UN officials and trafficking survivors themselves -- Erin illustrates the factors that contribute to trafficking, and how culture plays a large role in shaping the United States' human rights agenda around this issue. For booking information, contact: http://www.wolfmanproductions.com/