Long walk to nowhere : human trafficking in post-Mandela South Africa / Philip Frankel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Frankel, Philip H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--South Africa.

Human trafficking.

Human trafficking--South Africa--Prevention.

Child trafficking--South Africa.

Child trafficking.

Forced labor--South Africa.

Forced labor.

Human trafficking victims--South Africa.

Human trafficking victims.

Human rights--South Africa.

Human rights.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

xii, 274 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, New Jersey : Transaction Publishers, 2016.

Summary:

The end of apartheid has triggered massive illegal immigration into South Africa from all parts of Africa and beyond. Along with urbanization and internal migration, the end of apartheid has encouraged human smuggling and trafficking into the commercial sex market and various sectors of the economy from mining to agriculture and the service industries. Long Walk to Nowhere analyzes the impact of these developments on Nelson Mandela's vision for a democratic South Africa. Frankel explores human rights, the political culture, public health, the criminal justice system, and institutional development as South Africa moves into its third decade after "liberation." Using migration and human trafficking as barometers for democratic success, Frankel establishes that South Africa has become more unstable under two post-Mandela presidencies. The book covers the three major modes of human trafficking-sex, child, and labor. It also looks at the dynamics of trafficking with a perpetrator-focus, the complex issues of measurement, and the policy responses in light of South Africa's first comprehensive counter-trafficking legislation in 2015. Long Walk to Nowhere also blends the South African experiences with the impact of mass migration on human rights and good governance on a global basis. Book jacket.

Contents:

The dynamics

Introduction: people trafficking in South Africa

The exotic industries : commercial sex trafficking

Ending innocence : child trafficking

Labour chains : non-sexual labour trafficking (NSL)

Roleplayers & dimensions

Vots and perps: victims and perpetrators

Measuring immeasurables : the prevalence of human trade in South Africa

Responses: counter-trafficking

The legal and operational regime

Trafficking, criminal justice and national security

Trafficking and human rights

Conclusion.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412862837

1412862833

OCLC:

930875398