The focus of this issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review—public perceptions and responses to human trafficking—reflects the growing unease and disagreements among anti-trafficking practitioners and scholars about the current state of public awareness of human trafficking: how and by whom such awareness is produced and manipulated, whom it is targeting, and whether it leads, or can lead, to any meaningful anti-trafficking action. A central assumption in the anti-trafficking field is that the general public still lacks sufficient knowledge about human trafficking, and that creating more knowledge and awareness will lead to its reduction. However, there neither exists a common understanding of who should know what in order to achieve this goal, nor is there sufficient information available about the awareness of the general public or, especially, the impact of this awareness.

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社论：知识就是力量，无知是幸福：公众对人口贩运的看法和反应

本期《反人口贩运评论》的重点是公众对人口贩运的看法和对策，反映出反人口贩运从业者和学者对公众对贩运人口的认识的现状日益不安和分歧：这种认识的方式和来源产生和操纵的目标，以及它是否导致或可能导致任何有意义的反人口贩运行动。反贩运领域的一个中心假设是，公众仍然缺乏关于贩运人口的足够知识，而创造更多的知识和认识将导致贩运人口减少。但是，对于谁应该知道什么才能实现这一目标没有共识，也没有足够的关于公众意识的信息，特别是，