Organizations as Spaces for Caring: A Case of an Anti-trafficking Organization in India

Roscoe Conan D’Souza () and Ignasi Martí ()
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Roscoe Conan D’Souza: O.P. Jindal Global University
Ignasi Martí: Universitat Ramon Llull – ESADE Business School

Journal of Business Ethics, 2022, vol. 177, issue 4, No 8, 829-842

Abstract: Abstract Prior research has shown that human trafficking has multiple facets and is deeply enmeshed in societies around the world. Two central challenges for anti-trafficking organizations pertain to confronting systemic injustices and establishing caring organizations for survivors to start the process of healing and restoration. Analyzing the work of an anti-trafficking organization, International Sanctuary (ISanctuary) in Mumbai, we seek to elucidate how a space for caring for trafficking survivors is constructed in a largely non-egalitarian and unjust context. We contribute to discussions on how caring infrastructures are possibly developed so that they do not write off (pre)existing gendered and in-egalitarian social structures and how they shape individual biographies. We also highlight how the specific, situated context—defined by those very structures—shapes and influences the transformative potential of care interventions.

Keywords: Ethic of care and ethics of justice; Sex human trafficking; Organized spaces for caring (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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