This article, based on nine months of ethnographic data from a reintegration shelter for survivors of trafficking in Bangladesh, examines the tensions between claims of empowerment and the disempowering practices that undermine an organisation’s liberatory objective. The author documents how the leadership and other staff of an anti-trafficking NGO engage in regulating survivors’ desires, directing their desires by demanding that they perform a desire to engage in particular modes of self-improvement, and rehabilitating their desires to seek gender-conforming occupations. These three strategies together constitute disciplining desire, which I identify as a process of othering of poor Third World women and cultivating an ideal survivor subjectivity that conforms to gender and class expectations in the name of ‘reintegration’. This account encourages researchers to critically consider the micro-interactions that undermine the emancipatory goals within women’s empowerment regimes in the Global South.

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“这里没有受害者”：为孟加拉国贩运幸存者提供的重返社会住所的人种志

本文基于孟加拉国一个为人口贩运幸存者提供的重返社会庇护所的九个月的人种学数据，研究了赋予权力的要求与削弱组织解放目标的剥夺权力行为之间的紧张关系。作者记录了一个反贩运非政府组织的领导和其他人员如何参与调节幸存者的欲望，通过要求他们表现出参与特定自我完善模式的欲望来指导他们的欲望，并恢复了寻求性别的欲望。合规的职业。这三种策略共同构成了纪律性愿望，我认为这是与第三世界贫困妇女进行交往并培养以“重返社会”的名义符合性别和阶级期望的理想幸存者主观性的过程。