From human trafficking to human rights : reframing contemporary slavery /

"Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual...

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Other Authors: Brysk, Alison, 1960- (Editor), Choi-Fitzpatrick, Austin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2012.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Pennsylvania studies in human rights.
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Table of Contents:
  • Rethinking trafficking: contemporary slavery / Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
  • Uncomfortable silences: contemporary slavery and the "lessons" of history / Joel Quirk
  • Representing trafficking: media in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada / Girish J. "Jeff" Gulati
  • Rethinking trafficking: human rights and private wrongs / Alison Brysk
  • The sexual politics of U.S. inter/national security / Laura Hebert
  • Rethinking gender violence: battered and trafficked women in Greece and the United States / Gabriela Wasileski and Mark J. Miller
  • Peacekeeping and human trafficking: the new security dilemma / Charles Anthony Smith
  • The good, the bad, and the ugly: assessing the impact of the OAS and the UN on human trafficking in Haiti / Heather T. Smith
  • Making human rights accessible: the role of governments in trafficking and migrant labor exploitation / Christien van der Anker
  • Human rights and human trafficking: a reflection on the influence and evolution of the U.S. trafficking in persons reports / Anne Gallagher
  • The anti-slavery movement: making rights reality / Kevin Bales and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick.