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From Human Trafficking to Human Rights : Reframing Contemporary Slavery.
Title:
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights : Reframing Contemporary Slavery.
Author:
Brysk, Alison.
ISBN:
9780812205732
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (277 pages)
Series:
Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights
Contents:
Cover -- Contents -- Introduction: Rethinking Trafficking -- PART I. FROM SEX TO SLAVERY -- 1. Rethinking Trafficking: Contemporary Slavery -- 2. Uncomfortable Silences: Contemporary Slavery and the "Lessons" of History -- 3. Representing Trafficking: Media in the United States, Great Britain, and Canada -- PART II. FROM PROSTITUTION TO POWER -- 4. Rethinking Trafficking: Human Rights and Private Wrongs -- 5. The Sexual Politics of U.S. Inter/National Security -- 6. Rethinking Gender Violence: Battered and Trafficked Women in Greece and the United States -- 7. Peacekeepers and Human Trafficking: The New Security Dilemma -- 8. The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Assessing the Impact of the OAS and the UN on Human Trafficking in Haiti -- PART III. FROM RESCUE TO RIGHTS -- 9. Making Human Rights Accessible: The Role of Governments in Trafficking and Migrant Labor Exploitation -- 10. Human Rights and Human Trafficking: A Reflection on the Influence and Evolution of the U.S. Trafficking in Persons Reports -- 11. The Anti-slavery Movement: Making Rights Reality -- Notes -- Bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Acknowledgments.
Abstract:
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.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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