This paper explores the relationship between human trafficking and geographies of stigma. We introduce post‐trafficking contexts as important settings for understanding how geographical imaginaries underpin the everyday occurrence of stigma for those who have experienced human trafficking. We show how a focus on trafficking can speak back to some of the core migration literatures in Geography, highlighting new agendas with a particular focus on the how, where, and why of stigma. The paper draws on qualitative research in Nepal and interviews with 46 women who have experienced trafficking, to explain how geographies of stigma circumscribe the agency of returnees and affect their livelihoods and mobilities. It examines themes of spatial differentiation, territorialisation, and scalar processes in relation to the production and navigation of stigma. It shows how post‐trafficking is given meaning and expressed through spatial form and relations, which become manifest in scalar hierarchies of stigma. The argument highlights how these hierarchies are anchored through trafficking routes and destinations. It contrasts village and city settings as potential sites of return, bringing centre stage the role of the city in mediating returnees’ experiences. The analysis indicates how the categories of migrant and trafficked women are co‐produced through bureaucratisation processes. The documents and identificatory practices at the heart of state and non‐state interventions help produce the terms of in/visibility and social recognition for migrant women who often want to remain hidden. At the same time, they also reproduce some of the practices and mechanisms that underpin trafficking, thereby shaping the rejection, harassment, and abuse that comes with geographies of stigma for returnee women.

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污名化的地域：人口贩运后的经历

本文探讨了人口贩运与污名化地理之间的关系。我们将人口贩运后的情况作为重要的背景介绍，以了解地理假想如何为那些经历过人口贩运的人提供日常污名化的基础。我们将展示对人口贩运的关注如何与《地理》杂志的一些核心移民文献相提并论，重点介绍新议程，并特别关注如何，在何处以及为何受到污名。该论文利用对尼泊尔的定性研究，并采访了46名经历过贩运的妇女，以解释污名化的地理环境如何限制回返者的代理机构并影响其生计和流动性。它探讨了与柱头的产生和导航有关的空间差异，区域化和标量过程的主题。它显示了人口贩运如何被赋予意义并通过空间形式和关系来表达，并在污名的标量等级体系中得到体现。该论点强调了如何通过贩运路线和目的地来锚定这些层次结构。它将乡村和城市环境作为潜在的回返地点进行了对比，使城市在调解回返者的经历方面发挥了中心作用。分析表明，如何通过官僚化过程来共同生产移徙妇女和被贩运妇女的类别。国家和非国家干预的核心文件和身份证明做法有助于为经常想躲藏起来的移徙妇女提供不可见/可见性和社会认可的术语。同时，它们还复制了一些支持贩运的做法和机制，