LEADER 04162nam 2200649 a 450 001 9910451505703321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-281-15139-4 010 $a9786611151393 010 $a0-8135-4157-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541570 035 $a(CKB)1000000000483388 035 $a(EBL)328685 035 $a(OCoLC)476126537 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000269009 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11193617 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000269009 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10241915 035 $a(PQKB)10985337 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC328685 035 $a(OCoLC)191675628 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8206 035 $a(DE-B1597)526242 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541570 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL328685 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10214193 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL115139 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000483388 100 $a20060921d2007 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe war on human trafficking$b[electronic resource] $eU.S. policy assessed /$fAnthony M. DeStefano 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2007 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-4418-1 311 $a0-8135-4059-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 151-165) and index. 327 $aThe barrio girls -- The emerging issue -- The global response -- "We need this bill" -- The learning curve -- The lady from Pitesti -- Finding Leku -- Sweat, toil, and tears -- Sexual slavery : the immigrant's gilded cage -- New initiatives, more controversy -- The bully pulpit -- Measuring effectiveness -- Final thoughts. 330 $aThe United States has taken the lead in efforts to end international human trafficking-the movement of peoples from one country to another, usually involving fraud, for the purpose of exploiting their labor. Examples that have captured the headlines include the 300 Chinese immigrants that were smuggled to the United States on the ship Golden Venture and the young Mexican women smuggled by the Cadena family to Florida where they were forced into prostitution and confined in trailers. The public's understanding of human trafficking is comprised of terrible stories like these, which the media covers in dramatic, but usually short-lived bursts. The more complicated, long-term story of how policy on trafficking has evolved has been largely ignored. In The War on Human Trafficking, Anthony M. DeStefano covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish such practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story. DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. He assesses the effectiveness of the 2000 law and its progeny, showing the difficulties encountered by federal prosecutors in building criminal cases against traffickers. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq. Parsing politics from practice, this important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude to show that human trafficking has a much broader scope and is inextricable from the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk. 606 $aHuman trafficking$xGovernment policy$zUnited States 606 $aSex and law 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHuman trafficking$xGovernment policy 615 0$aSex and law. 676 $a364.1/3 700 $aDeStefano$b Anthony M$0975588 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451505703321 996 $aThe war on human trafficking$92221442 997 $aUNINA