Global Human Trafficking

Critical Issues and Contexts

Molly Dragiewicz

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• ISBN:
  9781134710386
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Criminology
• Index: Social Sciences

Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminology, public policy, women's and gender studies, sociology, anthropology, and law, but has been somewhat hindered by the failure of scholars to engage beyond their own disciplines and favoured methodologies. Recent research has begun to improve efforts to understand the causes of the problem, the experiences of victims, policy efforts, and their consequences in specific cultural and historical contexts.

Global Human Trafficking: Critical issues and contexts foregrounds recent empirical work on human trafficking from an interdisciplinary, critical perspective. The collection includes classroom-friendly features, such as introductory chapters that provide essential background for understanding the trafficking literature, textboxes explaining key concepts, discussion questions for each chapter, and lists of additional resources, including films, websites, and additional readings for each chapter.

The authors include both eminent and emerging scholars from around the world, drawn from law, anthropology, criminology, sociology, cultural studies, and political science and the book will be useful for undergraduate and graduate courses in these areas, as well as for scholars interested in trafficking.

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Global Human Trafficking

Critical issues and contexts

Edited by Molly Dragiewicz

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Global human trafficking : critical issues and contexts / edited by

Molly Dragiewicz.

pages cm. — (Global issues in crime and justice ; 2)

1. Human trafficking. I. Dragiewicz, Molly.

HQ281.G55 2014

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Contents

• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction MOLLY DRAGIEWICZ
• SECTION I Critical contexts for thinking about trafficking
  • 2 The trafficking policy debates JOYCE OUTSHOORN
  • 3 Data matters: Issues and challenges for research on trafficking ELŻBIETA M. GOŹDZIAK
• SECTION II Key issues in trafficking research
  • 4 Sex, violence, and the border: Trafficking for sex work from Mexico to the U.S. ANNA MATERNICK AND MELISSA HOPE DITMORE
  • 5 At sea: The trafficking of seafarers and fishers from Ukraine REBECCA SURTEES
  • 6 Human trafficking in “fresh” organs for illicit transplants: A protected crime NANCY SCHEPER-HUGHES
  • 7 (Not!) child trafficking in Benin NEIL HOWARD AND SIMONA MORGANTI
  • 8 Bride traffic: Trafficking for marriage to Australia KELLY RICHARDS AND SAMANTHA LYNEHAM
• SECTION III Trafficking policy: Intent and outcomes
  • 9 Clinton, Bush, and Obama: Changing policy and rhetoric in the United States Annual Trafficking in Persons Report ERIN O’BRIEN AND MICHAEL WILSON
  • 10 Service providers and their perceptions of the service needs of sex trafficking victims in the United States CLAIRE M. RENZETTI
  • 11 On broken chains and missing links: Tackling the “demand side of trafficking”? JULIA O’CONNELL DAVIDSON
• SECTION IV Moving forward
  • 12 “We have the right not to be ‘rescued’…“: When anti-trafficking programs undermine the health and well-being of sex workers AZIZA AHMED AND MEENA SESHU
  • 13 Nothing like chocolate: Sex trafficking and child labor trafficking KUM-KUM BHAVNANI AND EMILY SCHNEIDER
  • 14 Conclusion: The future of human trafficking research MOLLY DRAGIEWICZ
• Index

Contributors

Aziza Ahmed is Associate Professor of Law at Northeastern University School of Law in Boston, Massachusetts. She served as an expert member of the Technical Advisory Group on HIV and the Law convened by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and as an expert for the American Bar Association. She is on the board of the Center for Health and Gender Equity (CHANGE) and the Sexuality Information and Education Council of the United States (SIECUS).

Kum-Kum Bhavnani is Professor of Sociology at the University of California Santa Barbara, with affiliations to Global and Feminist Studies. She has written books and articles (e.g. Talking Politics [1991], Feminism and “Race” [2001]), and, most recently, has made three documentary films: The Shape of Water (2006), Nothing Like Chocolate (2012) (both narrated by Susan Sarandon) and Lutah (2013).

Melissa Hope Ditmore has written about human trafficking in books and journal articles. Her other publications address gender, migration, development, sex work, and drug use.

Molly Dragiewicz is Associate Professor of Justice in the Faculty of Law at Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. Her research interests focus on violence, gender, critical criminology, and the sociology of law.

Elżbieta M. Goździak is Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University and Editor of International Migration. Currently, she directs a National Institute of Justice funded project to present a profile of adult survivors of human trafficking assisted by the Office of Refugee Resettlement’s Anti-Trafficking Services Programs and to evaluate the effectiveness of intervention programs.

Neil Howard is a Marie Curie Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. Research for the article in this volume was conducted for the author’s doctorate in International Development at the University of Oxford.

Samantha Lyneham is a Research Analyst at the Australian Institute of Criminology, where her research focuses on human trafficking and slavery in Australia and the Asia-Pacific region. Samantha has completed a Bachelor of Social Science in Criminology from the University of New South Wales and a Postgraduate Diploma in Criminology from the University of Melbourne.

Anna Maternick collaborated on The Road North Study as a research intern for the Sex Workers Project. Anna is interested in studying the impact of trauma on youth. She currently works as a research associate in the Department of Family Medicine and Population Health at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia.

Simona Morganti is an anthropologist. She completed her ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Epigraph
• Half Title Page
• Frontmatter 1
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• List of contributors
• Acknowledgments
• 1 Introduction—MOLLY DRAGIEWICZ
• SECTION I Critical contexts for thinking about trafficking
• SECTION II Key issues in trafficking research
• SECTION III Trafficking policy: Intent and outcomes
• SECTION IV Moving forward
• Index