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In this volume a cast of experts demonstrates that it is time to recognize human trafficking as an issue of human rights and social justice, rooted in larger structural issues relating to the global economy, human security, U.S. foreign policy, and labor and gender relations.
List of contents
Introduction. Rethinking Trafficking -Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick PART I. FROM SEX TO SLAVERY 1. Rethinking Trafficking: Contemporary Slavery -Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick 2. Uncomfortable Silences: Contemporary Slavery and the 'Lessons' of History -Joel Quirk 3. Representing Trafficking: Media in the United States, Great Britain and Canada -Jeff Gulati PART II. FROM PROSTITUTION TO POWER 4. Rethinking Trafficking: Human Rights and Private Wrongs -Alison Brysk 5. The Sexual Politics of U.S. Inter/National Security -Laura Hebert 6. Rethinking Gender Violence: Battered and Trafficked Women in Greece and the United States -Gabriela Wasileski and Mark J. Miller 7. Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking: The New Security Dilemma -Charles Anthony Smith 8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Impact of the OAS and the UN on Human Trafficking in Haiti -Heather T. Smith PART III. FROM RESCUE TO RIGHTS 9. Making Human Rights Accessible: The Role of Governments in Trafficking and Migrant Labor Exploitation Christien van den Anker 10. Human Rights and Human Trafficking: A Reflection on the Influence and Evolution of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons Reports -Anne Gallagher 11. The Anti-slavery Movement: Making Rights Reality -Kevin Bales and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick List of Contributors Bibliography Index Acknowledgments
About the author
Alison Brysk is Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change at the University of Notre Dame.
