Sex Trafficking A Global Perspective

by McCabe, Kimberly A.; Manian, Sabita; Bruckmüller, Karin; Bullock, Brad; Bush, Michael A.; Carranza, Mirna; Chen, Yingyu; Crim, Brian E.; Grassano, James B.; Manian, Sunita; Mathias, William J.; Melrose, Margaret; Nguyen, Nhatthien Q.; Parada, Henry; Richa

• ISBN13: 9780739129340
• ISBN10: 0739129341
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-04-12
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

Global estimates of human trafficking range from six hundred thousand to four million victims each year with the majority being victims of sex trafficking. This strikingly large range belies the difficulty in the gathering, defining, and accounting of sex-trafficking data. Victims of sex of sex trafficking may be forced into pornography, prostitution for the military, spousal prostitution, and prostitution for the sex-tourism industry. In response to the problem of sex trafficking, many nations have either misunderstood the definition or failed to comprehend the magnitude that occurs within their birders. The United National has defined "human trafficking" as "the recruitment, transfer, harboring, or receipt of persons by threat or use of force." Similarly, the U.S. State Department's trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 describes severe forms of trafficking as: "(a) sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such an act has not attained eighteen years of age; or (b) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining, of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery."

Author Biography

Kimberly A. McCabe is dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and professor of criminology at Lynchburg College. Sabita Manian is professor of international relations at Lynchburg College.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Defining Sex Trafficking	p. 1
Africa	p. 9
Sex Trafficking in the Horn of Africa	p. 13
Sex Trafficking in the Countries of South Africa, Mozambique, and Zimbabwe	p. 25
East Asia and Pacific	p. 33
An Anatomy of Asian Gangs Involved in Sex Trafficking: An Application of Routine Activities Theory	p. 37
Taiwan's Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking between 2001 and 2008	p. 45
Europe	p. 55
Mercenary Territory: A UK Perspective on Human Trafficking	p. 59
Human Trafficking in Austria, Poland, and Croatia	p. 71
Near East	p. 81
The Wretched of the Earth: Trafficking, the Maghreb, and Europe	p. 83
Addicted to Cheap Labor: The Gulf States, the Near East, and Trafficking	p. 91
South Asia	p. 99
Trafficking in India	p. 101
Afghanistan and the Sex Trade	p. 111
Western Hemisphere	p. 119
Sex Traffic and Trafficking in the Caribbean	p. 121
Child Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Nicaragua: A Critical Globalization Perspective	p. 131
North America	p. 143
Sex Trafficking in the United States	p. 147
Sex Trafficking in Canada: Limited Efforts in Law Enforcement	p. 159
Sex Trafficking and Mexico	p. 165
Conclusion: Anti-Trafficking Efforts	p. 171
Index	p. 175
About the Contributors	p. 185
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