CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Dodi, Marcela |
|---|---|
| Title | Shame In Shqiperi: Post-Sex Trafficked Female Experience In Contemporary Albania |
| Summary | This thesis seeks to explore the perceptions and experiences of Albanian women post-sex traffick-ing, upon their return to Albania. It interrogates these experiences through notions of shame and victimization, arguing that such notions can be both societally and self-imposed to create a climate in which these women are often excluded from or unable to (re)join Albanian society. It argues that notions of victimhood, often imposed by the international community and NGOs, have the power to compound domestic marginalization by promoting a narrative of victimhood which, when viewed through the Albanian mentality/mentalitet schqipare promotes exclusion, rather than inclu-sion. In arguing for such a case, I conduct a discourse analysis of interviews of post-sex trafficked women, as conducted by Vatra, an Albanian organization established to aid women post-sex traf-ficking, as well as looking at the wider public discourse including national and international news-paper articles. What, overall, this work seeks to present is the idea that Albanian society itself needs to reframe how it thinks about women post-sex trafficking, thinking of them not as victims, and therefore worthy of shame, but as survivors. |
| Supervisor | Kóczé, Angéla |
| Department | Gender Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/dodi_marcela.pdf |
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