In the present paper, I trace the historical process of transformation through which the anti-trafficking discourse, understood in the Taiwanese context as the eradication of a specific form of underage aboriginal prostitution in the l980s, came to articulate different sets of anxieties and interests in Taiwan in its post-martial-law era. I also trace the process of how, as the anti-trafficking cause quickly lost its relevance in the fast changing social reality of Taiwan, the pastoral project of the child-protection NGOs has now reconstituted itself into an intricate web of social discipline that embodies ”a vision of global governance.”