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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807800303321

Autore

Kara Siddharth

Titolo

Sex trafficking : inside the business of modern slavery / / Siddharth Kara ; with a new preface

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2017]

©2017

ISBN

0-231-54263-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations

Classificazione

364.1534 KAR

Disciplina

306.74

Soggetti

Human trafficking

Human trafficking - Prevention

Minorities - Crimes against

Minorities - Social conditions

Minorities - Economic conditions

Globalization - Economic conditions

Prostitution

Slavery

Sex industry

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.