THE DESIGNATED VICTIM: REPRESENTATIONS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN BRAZIL

This article analyzes the images of human trafficking presented by the principal anti-trafficking campaigns created by the Brazilian state and some of its most important allies in civil society. We seek to understand how these campaigns represent victims, perpetrators and trafficking itself in their attempts to inculcate in Brazilian society a culture of “resistance to modern slavery”. Such a culture has as its most important component the anonymous denunciation of “suspicious people”. We present an ideal typography of these images, comparing them to similar images produced in the Western European and North American contexts. We then look at the changes and continuities that appear in the Brazilian images over the years, and analyze some of the specific characteristics of Brazilian campaigns. We conclude with a brief discussion of the possible side effects of campaigns that are based on these kinds of iconography.本文分析了巴西政府及其部分核心民间盟友发起的主流反人口贩卖宣传活动所呈现的人口贩卖相关图像。我们旨在探究这些宣传活动如何刻画受害者、施害者以及人口贩卖行为本身，以实现在巴西社会灌输"抵制现代奴隶制"文化的目标。该文化的核心构成要素之一，便是对"可疑人员"的匿名举报。我们对这些图像进行了理想类型学梳理，并将其与西欧、北美地区产出的同类图像进行对比分析。随后我们分析了多年来巴西相关图像的演变与延续特征，并探讨了巴西反人口贩卖宣传活动的若干专属特质。最后，本文简要讨论了基于这类视觉符号体系的宣传活动可能产生的潜在负面影响。