The war on human trafficking : U.S. policy assessed /
"The 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 three hundred Chinese immigran...
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| Language: | English |
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
[2007], ©2007
New Brunswick, N.J. : c2007 New Brunswick, N.J. : ©2007 New Brunswick, N.J. : [2007] |
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| Summary: | "The 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 three hundred Chinese immigrants who 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 influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq." "Sorting out politics from practice, this 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."--BOOK JACKET |
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| Item Description: | This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |
| Physical Description: | xxvii, 175 p. ; 24 cm xxvii, 175 p. ; 25 cm xxvii, 175 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-165) and index Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-165) and index Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 0813540593 (hardcover : alk. paper) 0813540593 9780813540597 (hardcover : alk. paper) 9780813540597 |