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This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world. Drawing on a wide body of academic research - actual prosecuted cases, diverse reports, and field work and interviews conducted by the author over the last sixteen years in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the former socialist countries - Louise Shelley concludes that human trafficking will grow in the twenty-first century as a result of economic and demographic inequalities in the world, the rise of conflicts, and possibly global climate change. Coordinated efforts of government, civil society, the business community, multilateral organizations, and the media are needed to stem its growth.
This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world. Drawing on a wide body of academic research - actual prosecuted cases, diverse reports, and field work and interviews conducted by the author over the last sixteen years in Asia, Latin America, Africa, Europe, and the former socialist countries - Louise Shelley concludes that human trafficking will grow in the twenty-first century as a result of economic and demographic inequalities in the world, the rise of conflicts, and possibly global climate change. Coordinated efforts of government, civil society, the business community, multilateral organizations, and the media are needed to stem its growth.
Introduction; Part I. The Rise and Costs of Human Trafficking: 1. Why has human trafficking flourished?; 2. The diverse consequences of human trafficking; Part II. The Financial Side of Human Trafficking: 3. Human trafficking as transnational organized crime; 4. The business of human trafficking; Part III. Regional Perspectives: 5. Asian trafficking; 6. Human trafficking in Eurasia and Eastern Europe; 7. Trafficking in Europe; 8. Trafficking in the United States; 9. Human trafficking in Latin America and Africa; Conclusion.
Introduction; Part I. The Rise and Costs of Human Trafficking: 1. Why has human trafficking flourished?; 2. The diverse consequences of human trafficking; Part II. The Financial Side of Human Trafficking: 3. Human trafficking as transnational organized crime; 4. The business of human trafficking; Part III. Regional Perspectives: 5. Asian trafficking; 6. Human trafficking in Eurasia and Eastern Europe; 7. Trafficking in Europe; 8. Trafficking in the United States; 9. Human trafficking in Latin America and Africa; Conclusion.
This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of traffickers themselves.
Louise Shelley is a Professor in the School of Public Policy and the founder and Director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center (TraCCC) at George Mason University. She is a leading US expert on transnational crime and terrorism, with a particular focus on the former Soviet Union. Dr Shelley is the author of Policing Soviet Society (1996), Lawyers in Soviet Work Life (1984) and Crime and Modernization (1981), as well as numerous articles and book chapters on all aspects of transnational crime, corruption and the crime-terror nexus.
'A comprehensive and insightful overview of this crime that snares
hundreds of thousands of new victims every year. Professor Shelley
sidesteps the tear-jerking melodrama that has tempted so many
authors on the subject. Her analytical approach to revealing the
inner workings of the business provides more than enough drama.
This is the book many of us have been waiting for: a serious yet
lively volume that will be eye-opening and inspirational to the
reader who knows little about the issue while providing new
insights to experienced practitioners and academics.' Richard
Danziger, Head of Counter Trafficking, International Organization
for Migration
'Using her unique global network and unparalleled access to
informants and data, Louise Shelley has written the single most
important volume on human trafficking to date. It provides the most
comprehensive and convincing explanation of the causes and
consequences of human trafficking that I have read, examines the
financial side of human trafficking, and explains how the
phenomenon has developed in very different ways across the world's
main regions. Her conclusion that human trafficking will continue
to grow in the twenty-first century poses an enormous challenge for
policymakers to rethink their current approaches.' Khalid Koser,
Geneva Centre for Security Policy
'Louise Shelley has drawn on her scholarly skills and practical
experience to produce an invaluable contribution to our
understanding of human trafficking, particularly the trafficking of
women and children. Her book not only provides us with a sense of
the root causes and motivations of those trafficked as well as the
means and methods of the traffickers and their clients, but also
offers sound analysis and policy recommendations for governments,
international organizations, and private institutions to combat
this growing global problem.' Ambassador Melvyn Levitsky,
Professor, Gerald R. Ford School, University of Michigan
'Human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation is a
complex phenomenon that spans the globe. In a masterful scholarly
work, Louise Shelley examines the numerous interconnected elements
that comprise the crime of human trafficking, including the
interplay of supply and demand and the role of transnational
organized crime. In a broad, in-depth, and authoritative analysis,
Shelley explores the patterns of trafficking in almost every
country around the world - reflecting the phenomenon's intimate
linkages to the processes of globalization. With this
well-documented book, Shelley is filling an important gap in any
scholar's, advocate's, or student's library of human trafficking.
Hers is an important and timely contribution to a field in which
rigorous academic scholarship is critical for effective
policymaking and development.' Mohamed Y. Mattar, The Protection
Project, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International
Studies
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