Human Trafficking
A Global Perspective

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of traffickers themselves.

Louise Shelley (Author)

9780521130875, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 29 July 2010

356 pages, 2 tables
22.8 x 15.3 x 1.9 cm, 0.48 kg

'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

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.

Subject Areas: Human rights [JPVH], International institutions [JPSN], International relations [JPS]