Sex Trafficking : Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kara, Siddharth.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Economic conditions.

Human trafficking--Prevention.

Human trafficking.

Minorities--Crimes against.

Minorities--Economic conditions.

Minorities--Social conditions.

Prostitution.

Sex-oriented businesses.

Slavery.

Human trafficking--Crimes against.

Minorities.

Globalization.

Sex industry.

Local Subjects:

Globalization--Economic conditions.

Human trafficking--Prevention.

Human trafficking.

Minorities--Crimes against.

Minorities--Economic conditions.

Minorities--Social conditions.

Prostitution.

Sex-oriented businesses.

Slavery.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (322 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such ""processing,"" and can be repeatedly ""consumed.""Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995

Contents:

Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1| Sex Trafficking: An Overview; 2| India and Nepal; 3| Italy and Western Europe; 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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

1-280-59824-7

9786613628077

0-231-51139-6

OCLC:

302293337