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Sex Trafficking : Inside the Business of Modern Slavery / Siddharth Kara.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231180337
  • 9780231542630
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 364.1534 23
LOC classification:
  • HQ281 .K37 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2017 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sex Traffi cking: An Overview -- 2. India and Nepal -- 3. Italy and Western Eu rope -- 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union -- 5. Albania and the Balkans -- 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion -- 7. The United States -- 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand -- Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes -- Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics -- Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
Summary: Since the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery worldwide. His riveting encounters with victims and traffickers informed his screenplay for Trafficked (2016), now a major motion picture. The film features familiar figures from Sex Trafficking and the shocking conditions of their exploitation. It also includes cases Kara has uncovered since his book debuted.This new paperback edition of Sex Trafficking includes a preface by Kara in which he discusses his findings and updates the statistics relating to his business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery. After fifteen years, Kara has recorded nearly 900 cases of sex trafficking in forty-one countries and has helped advise on numerous legal, tactical, and policy efforts for abolishing modern-day slavery across the globe. Sex Trafficking continues to lead as a resource for those hoping to expose this hidden evil and eradicate its practice once and for all.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 2017 Edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Sex Traffi cking: An Overview -- 2. India and Nepal -- 3. Italy and Western Eu rope -- 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union -- 5. Albania and the Balkans -- 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion -- 7. The United States -- 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand -- Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes -- Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics -- Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

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Since the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery worldwide. His riveting encounters with victims and traffickers informed his screenplay for Trafficked (2016), now a major motion picture. The film features familiar figures from Sex Trafficking and the shocking conditions of their exploitation. It also includes cases Kara has uncovered since his book debuted.This new paperback edition of Sex Trafficking includes a preface by Kara in which he discusses his findings and updates the statistics relating to his business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery. After fifteen years, Kara has recorded nearly 900 cases of sex trafficking in forty-one countries and has helped advise on numerous legal, tactical, and policy efforts for abolishing modern-day slavery across the globe. Sex Trafficking continues to lead as a resource for those hoping to expose this hidden evil and eradicate its practice once and for all.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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