This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackling human trafficking h
Sex trafficking is not a recent phenomenon. Over 100 years ago, the first international traffic in women for prostitution emerged, prompting a worldwide effort
Although human trafficking has a long and ignoble history, it is only recently that trafficking has become a major political issue for states and the internatio
Human trafficking has moved from relative obscurity to a major area of research, policy and teaching over the past ten years. Research has sprung from criminolo
This book provides the first overarching, empirically grounded, critical analysis of child trafficking as an idea, ordering principle, and artefact of politics.