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September 10, 2025International Political SociologyOpen Access

“I Belong, but Do I Really Belong?” the Suspended Future of the “Modern Slave” in British Protection Politics

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ECEmily Clifford

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Overview

Interview analysis highlights the complexities of anti-modern slavery policy, revealing infantilization and cultural borders.

Key Points

  • The analysis reveals the temporal impossibility of anti-slavery rhetoric, placing the modern slave as suspended in a pre-political state.
  • Interview data from a Nigerian trafficking survivor underscores the infantilization and criminalization experienced in British policy.
  • The findings illustrate how the embodied identity of non-White individuals reveals the foundational violence within national borders.
  • The paper critiques British protection politics, highlighting how narratives of modern slavery justify cultural and territorial borders.

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Emily Clifford (2025) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/68c195559b7b07f3a0618e25https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olaf035
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