Sex Trafficking: A Global Perspective

✍ Scribed by Kimberly A. McCabe

• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 195
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book targets sex trafficking within every geographic region and it provides a general profile of the geographic regions in terms of demographic characteristics and political conditions that may support the growth of sex trafficking. It is written on a basic information-supply-level to provide readers with a foundation on human trafficking throughout the world.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
1 Introduction:
Defining Sex Trafficking......Page 8
I
Africa......Page 16
2
Sex Trafficking in the Horn of Africa......Page 20
3 Sex Trafficking in the Countries of
South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe......Page 32
II
East Asia and Pacific......Page 40
4 An Anatomy of Asian Gangs Involved in Sex Trafficking: An Application
of Routine Activities Theory......Page 44
5 Taiwan’s Efforts to Combat Human
Trafficking between 2001 and 2008......Page 52
III
Europe......Page 62
6 Mercenary Territory:
A UK Perspective on Human Trafficking......Page 66
7 Human Trafficking in Austria, Poland, and Croatia......Page 78
IV
Near East......Page 88
8 The Wretched of the Earth:
Trafficking, the Maghreb, and Europe......Page 90
9 Addicted to Cheap Labor: The Gulf States, the Near East, and Trafficking......Page 98
V
South Asia......Page 106
10
Trafficking in India......Page 108
11
Afghanistan and the Sex Trade......Page 118
VI
Western Hemisphere......Page 126
12
Sex Traffic and Trafficking in the Caribbean......Page 128
13 Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Nicaragua:
A Critical Globalization Perspective......Page 138
VII
North America......Page 150
14
Sex Trafficking in the United States......Page 154
15 Sex Trafficking in Canada:
Limited Efforts in Law Enforcement......Page 166
16
Sex Trafficking and Mexico......Page 172
17 Conclusion:
Anti-Trafficking Efforts......Page 178
Index......Page 182
About the Contributors......Page 192