| Description |
xviii, 262 pages ; 23 cm. |
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Contemporary social issues |
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Contemporary social issues (New York, N.Y.)
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
1. Introduction : size and scope -- Size and scope of sex trafficking around the world -- Regional volume : some examples -- Regional growth -- Sex industry growth -- The personal and the contextual -- The rise of sex trafficking from the former Soviet states -- Women from the NIS in foreign sex industries : size and scope -- Collapse of the Soviet Union and economic transition -- Decline in the status of women and vulnerability to traffickers -- Contributors to sex trafficking from a region in transition : conclusions -- Coming up -- Notes -- 2. Industry profits and debt bondage, or how traffickers make money from modern-day slavery -- Industry-wide profits and safeguards -- Regional profits -- The debt bondage system -- Debt amounts -- Living expenses and earnings -- Other charges : fines, medical costs, passport buybacks -- Living and working conditions -- Living quarters -- Work -- Control mechanisms : creating dependence -- Conditions vary -- Notes. |
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3. Criminal networks and corrupt guardians : the trafficking industry -- Key structural components of the sex trafficking industry -- Networks and transnational crime -- One recruiter's trafficking network -- Trafficker roles -- Recruitment and transport -- Enforcement and extortion -- Corrupt guardians -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 4. Sex trafficking and the changing face(s) of organized crime -- Key traditional and adaptive attributed of organized crime -- Characteristics of established and newer organized crime groups as sex traffickers -- Weak states and recognition of profitability : entrees for organized crime -- Established mafias active in sex trafficking -- The Russian mafia -- Other NIS organized crime -- Japanese Yakuza, Chinese Triads, and other East Asian crime groups -- Newer organized crime groups active in sex trafficking -- Eastern and Central European crime groups -- Crime groups and rings in, from, and around India -- Nigerian, other West African, and South African networks -- Latin American organized crime groups -- Summary comments -- Notes. |
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5. From here to there : sex trafficking flows and the economic conditions that drive them -- Women's poverty, joblessness, and poor working conditions in source countries -- Conditions in developing and transitional source countries -- Conditions in affluent destination countries -- Globalization and its macrolevel ends -- Market privatization -- Market liberalization -- Spread of production through foreign investment -- Development policies : loans, debts, and austerity and structural adjustment programs -- Global and local conditions and sex trafficking flows : concluding comment -- Relationships between trafficking roles and countries' economic and gender status -- Measure of economic and gender status -- Human development level and primary trafficking roles -- Regional variations in economic and gender status and trafficking roles -- Conclusions from trafficking role and regional analyses [sic] -- Notes -- 6. Militarized rape and other patriarchal hostilities : fueling and legitimating male demand for sex trade -- War rape, wartime prostitution, and sex trafficking : connections -- Women as objects and property -- Making men out of boys : military socialization -- Battlefield rape and prostitution : one and the same -- Militarized rape, sexual enslavement, and patriarchy -- Patriarchy and masculine dominance -- Examples of wartime rape and sexual enslavement -- Organized religion, misogyny, and the sexual use of women -- Clerics and sexual enslavement -- Religious sexual enslavement -- Notes. |
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7. The organization of military prostitution in modern times : building a sex trade from militarized demand -- Organized military prostitution and prostitution economies : an example -- The military's role in organizing prostitution in modern wars -- World War II -- The Korean War -- The Vietnam War -- Tentacles of organized military prostitution -- Congregational prostitution -- Racist images of sexualized "others" -- Concluding comments -- Notes -- 8. Tackling sex trafficking and enslaved prostitution now and into the future -- Defining sex trafficking and sexual exploitation as universal harms -- International conventions -- Cultural relativism versus universal human rights -- Immediate needs and long-term changes -- Support and help for victims of trafficking -- Problems and special needs of trafficked children -- National laws on prostitution and sex trafficking -- Tackling sex trafficking and enslaved prostitution through social change -- Activating social change -- Substantive societal change -- In conclusion -- Notes. |
| Summary |
Documents the macro and micro impact of trafficking women and children on a global scale. The author looks not only at the victims themselves but also at the men and women who control the trade, organized crime, economic conditions that push it along, and the military's role in perpetuating its demand. |
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Forced labor.
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Women -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst01176618
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Transnational crime.
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Forced labor. (OCoLC)fst00931594
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Organized crime.
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Prostitution. (OCoLC)fst01079562
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War crimes. (OCoLC)fst01170465
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Organized crime. (OCoLC)fst01047884
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Women -- Crimes against.
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Children -- Crimes against.
(OCoLC)fst00854884
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Prostitution.
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Transnational crime. (OCoLC)fst01154880
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Child prostitution.
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War crimes.
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Child prostitution. (OCoLC)fst00854525
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Slave trade.
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Children -- Crimes against.
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Human trafficking. (OCoLC)fst01739818
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Slave trade. (OCoLC)fst01120405
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| Local Subject |
Trafficking in enslaved persons.
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| Subject |
Human trafficking.
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| Added Title |
Global market in women and children |
| ISBN |
0716755483 (paper) |
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9780716755487 (paper) |
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