DOI: 10.4324/9781003188971-17 13 FIGHTING HUMAN TRAFFICKING AWAY FROM A HUMAN RIGHTS FRAME The Efects of Anti-Trafcking Regimes in Brazil Adriana Piscitelli Introduction In this chapter I analyze the dissemination and efects of the regimes for fghting human trafcking based on recent infections in the pertaining debate and actions in Brazil. By “regimes”, I refer to the constellation of policies, norms, discourses, knowledge and laws about human trafcking, formulated at the intersection of supranational, international, national and local dimensions. This chapter aims, based on the Brazilian “case”, to provide a comparative perspective for understand- ing the adoption of regimes for fghting human trafcking and their apparently similar efects in diferent countries regardless of geopolitical positions, migratory policies, cross-border mobilities, legal models concerning prostitution and posi- tions regarding national security and humanitarianism. 1 In the frst half of the 2010s, the dissemination of anti-trafcking regimes in Brazil intensifed and accelerated. At the time, the country was the particular focus of transnational activist networks combating trafcking and concerned with its ties with large sporting events such as the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olym- pics. But the accelerated difusion of these regimes in Brazil cannot be dissociated from national concerns related to two other issues: the efects of large construction projects and a renewed interest in borders – particularly in the Amazon region, through which new fows of undesirable immigrants were arriving, frst from Haiti and later Venezuela. This, in a region where, according to the observations of nongovernmental agencies, the alleged absence of the state makes local populations more vulnerable to trafcking (Piscitelli et al. 2015). Analyzing the dissemination of these regimes in Brazil in the 2010s, I will argue that this difusion operated through the intensifcation and modifcation of pro- cesses in which the concept of trafcking was broadened, and the aspects consid- ered evidence of the same multiplied, allowing an appropriation of the language of