
Child Welfare Committee
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Oct 8, 2026
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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45:45Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They brought forth, um, you know, different constructions and navigations and contestations of the concept of victimhood, for instance, right? So I think that was just, um, extremely telling, and I, I can say a little bit more about that.
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46:01Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
Um, the rescues were also marked by tensions, right? Between, um, not just between the women and these entities that were performing the rescues, but also among the entities, right? Between, um, the, the police and the state agencies that were involved, at times the Child Welfare Committee, um, and the NGOs.
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46:21Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They didn't all necessarily see eye to eye either, right? So for instance, NGOs and the police came to rescues with different interpretations of prostitution and of, and of victimhood.
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46:33Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
And these differences were rooted in, you know, them having different moral frameworks, different gendered moral frameworks, different interpretations of the law, different resources, right? NGOs getting foreign funding and the police sort of having to fit in these rescues amidst several other cases that they were taking care of.
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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48:14Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They brought forth, um, you know, different constructions and navigations and contestations of the concept of victimhood, for instance, right? So I think that was just, um, extremely telling, and I, I can say a little bit more about that.
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48:30Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
Um, the rescues were also marked by tensions, right? Between, um, not just between the women and these entities that were performing the rescues, but also among the entities, right? Between, um, the, the police and the state agencies that were involved, at times the Child Welfare Committee, um, and the NGOs.
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48:49Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They didn't all necessarily see eye to eye either, right? So for instance, NGOs and the police came to rescues with different interpretations of prostitution and of, and of victimhood.
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49:02Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
And these differences were rooted in, you know, them having different moral frameworks, different gendered moral frameworks, different interpretations of the law, different resources, right? NGOs getting foreign funding, and the police sort of having to fit in these rescues amidst several other cases that they were taking care of.
Immoral Traffic An Ethnography of Law, NGOs, and the Governance of Prostitution in India with Vibhuti Ramachandran (Cambridge UP, 2025)
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50:57Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They brought forth, um, you know, different constructions and navigations and contestations of the concept of victimhood, for instance, right? So I think that was just, um, extremely telling, and I, I can say a little bit more about that.
V
51:14Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
Um, the rescues were also marked by tensions, right, between, um, not just between the women and these entities that were performing the rescues, but also among the entities, right? Between, um, the, the police and the state agencies that were involved, at times the Child Welfare Committee, um, and the NGOs.
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51:33Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
They didn't all necessarily see eye to eye either, right? So for instance, NGOs and the police came to rescues with different interpretations of prostitution and of, and of victimhood.
V
51:45Vibhuti RamachandranGUEST
And these differences were rooted in, you know, them having different moral frameworks, different gendered moral frameworks, different interpretations of the law, different resources, right? NGOs getting the foreign funding and the police sort of having to fit in these rescues amidst several other cases that they were taking care of.