Human Rights

Trafficking And Human Rights European and Asia-Pacific Perspectives

By Leslie Holmes
Edward Elgar Publishing February 2013

Specifications

ISBN-13
9781782545804
Publisher
Edward Elgar Publishing
Publication
February 2013
Format
Paperback , 264 pages
Jurisdiction
Asia-Pacific, European Union ? Countri(es) for reference only

Details

Human trafficking is widely considered to be the fastest growing branch of trafficking. As this important book reveals, it has moved rapidly up the agenda of states and international organisations since the early-1990s, not only because of this growth, but also as its implications for security and human rights have become clearer. 

This fascinating study by international experts provides original research findings on human trafficking, with particular reference to Europe, South-East Asia and Australia. A major focus is on why and how many states and organisations act in ways that undermine trafficked victims’ rights, as part of ‘quadruple victimisation’. It compares and contrasts policies and suggests which seem to work best and why. The contributors also advocate radical new approaches that most states and other formal organisations appear loath to introduce, for reasons that are explored in this unique book.

This must-read book will appeal to policymakers as well as advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students in the fields of criminology, human rights law, gender studies, political science and international studies.

Table of Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: The Issue of Human Trafficking
Leslie Holmes

2. Human Trafficking: A Challenge for the European Union and its Member States (with particular reference to Poland)
Zbigniew Lasocik

3. Responses to Sex Trafficking: Gender, Borders and ‘Home’
Sanja Milivojevic and Marie Segrave

4. People Smuggling and Human Trafficking Within, from and through Central and Eastern Europe
Leslie Holmes

5. ‘Boys will be Boys’: Human Trafficking and UN Peacekeeping in Bosnia and Kosovo
Olivera Simic

6. Between Social Opprobrium and Repeat Trafficking: Chances and Choices of Albanian Women Deported from the UK
Stephanie Schwandner-Sievers

7. Trafficking in Human Beings for Sexual Purposes: Sweden’s Anti-trafficking Regime and the Lessons for Australia
Kevin Leong

8. Combating Transnational Crime in the Greater Mekong Subregion: The Cases of Laos and Cambodia
Susan Kneebone and Julie Debeljak

9. Exit, Rehabilitation and Returning to Prostitution: Experiences of Domestic Trafficking Victims in the Philippines
Sallie Yea

10. Conclusions: Quadruple Victimisation?
Leslie Holmes

Bibliography

Index

About the Author

Edited by Leslie Holmes, Professor of Political Science, University of Melbourne, Australia and Recurrent Visiting Professor at both the Graduate School for Social Research, Warsaw, Poland and the University of Bologna, Italy

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