Human Trafficking

✍ Scribed by Lee, Maggy

• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 252
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Human Trafficking provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade. It addresses the subject within the broader context of global crime and the internationalisation of crime control. The book takes a broadly discursive approach and draws on historical, comparative as well as the latest empirical material to illustrate and inform the discussion of the major trends in human trafficking. The book helps to develop fresh theoretical insights into globalisation, exclusion and governance, and identifies a new research agenda that will ensure the book is of interest to advanced level.  Read more...

Abstract: Human Trafficking provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade. It addresses the subject within the broader context of global crime and the internationalisation of crime control. The book takes a broadly discursive approach and draws on historical, comparative as well as the latest empirical material to illustrate and inform the discussion of the major trends in human trafficking. The book helps to develop fresh theoretical insights into globalisation, exclusion and governance, and identifies a new research agenda that will ensure the book is of interest to advanced level

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Cover
Human Trafficking
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on contributors
Chapter 1 Introduction: Understanding human trafficking
Chapter 2 Historical approaches to the trade in human beings
Chapter 3 Researching into human trafficking: Issues and problems
Chapter 4 A conducive context: Trafficking of persons in Central Asia
Chapter 5 Trafficking into and from Eastern Europe
Chapter 6 Human trafficking as a form of transnational crime
Chapter 7 From HIV prevention to counter-trafficking: Discursive shifts and institutional continuities in South-East Asia. Chapter 8 Immigration detention in BritainChapter 9 Shooting the passenger: Australia's war on illicit migrants
Chapter 10 The rights of strangers: Policies, theories, philosophies
Index.

✦ Subjects

Human trafficking.