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Trafficking in women has become a severe human rights problem in the European Union. Cur-rently the trade in human beings generates higher profits than trafficking drugs or weapons. The book describes the history and the dimension of the phenomenon in the EU. It centers around the question, when, how and why the European Union started to fight trafficking in women. The author argues that it has been due to power of international norms, successfully operating advo-cacy-networks and favorable political opportunity structures that the problem could draw public and political attention.
List of contents
Norms in International Politics - Trafficking in Women and the EU: Elements of a Framework for Analysis - Actors in the 'Velvet Triangle' - Political Opportunity Structures - The Anti-Trafficking-Regime: Norm-Emergence in Historical Perspective - Trafficking and the European Community: The Silence of the Early Decades - The Extension of EU-Actions against Trafficking - The Consolidation of the EU's Anti-Trafficking Policy - Explaining Trafficking in Women in the European Union etc.
About the author
Dr. rer. pol. Birgit Locher is political consultant and works as a researcher at the University of Tübingen.
Summary
Trafficking in women has become a severe human rights problem in the European Union. Currently the trade in human beings generates higher profits than trafficking drugs or weapons. The book describes the history and the dimension of the phenomenon in the EU. It centers around the question, when, how and why the European Union started to fight trafficking in women. The author argues that it has been due to power of international norms, successfully operating advocacy-networks and favorable political opportunity structures that the problem could draw public and political attention.
Foreword
Norms, Advocacy-Networks and Policy-Change
Additional text
"Das Buch ist aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive ein Novum, da die Autorin erstmals den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Menschenhandel und der Umsetzung von europäischen Rechtsnormen systematisch untersucht. Gleichzeitig bietet sie einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über die gesamte Spannbreite der Problematik." www.zpol.de (Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft), 29.07.2008
"[...] eine beeindruckende theoriegeleitete und -entwickelte Fallstudie über ein bislang kaum erforschtes Politikfeld." Femina Politica, 02/2007
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"Das Buch ist aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive ein Novum, da die Autorin erstmals den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Menschenhandel und der Umsetzung von europäischen Rechtsnormen systematisch untersucht. Gleichzeitig bietet sie einen leicht verständlichen Überblick über die gesamte Spannbreite der Problematik." www.zpol.de (Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft), 29.07.2008
"[...] eine beeindruckende theoriegeleitete und -entwickelte Fallstudie über ein bislang kaum erforschtes Politikfeld." Femina Politica, 02/2007
