Alicia Peters
Affiliation
- Graduate Student Fellow, Mailman School of Public Health
Thesis Title
"Interpretation, Mediation and Implementation of US Anti-trafficking Law and Policy: Women, NGOs and the State "
Research
Alicia Peters is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociomedical Sciences at Columbia University. Her research interests include medical anthropology; gender and sexuality; sex work, trafficking, and migration; law, culture, and policy; and NGOs. Her dissertation project explores the implementation and interpretation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act in the New York metropolitan. The project explores a series of simultaneous narratives and discourses on trafficking – the official and dominant discourse produced via federal policy, reports, and speeches; the interpretations of federal and local officials; the experiential narratives of women trafficked for sexual labor; and the accounts produced by NGOs serving as interpreters, advocates, mediators, and liaisons between trafficked women and the state.
