• Chapter 1 - The Sociology of Sex Work
• Chapter 2 - The Cultural Context of Commerce and Sex
• Chapter 3 - Sex Workers and Sex Work
• Chapter 4 - Children, Young People and CSEC
• Chapter 5 - Buying Sexual Services
• Chapter 6 - Sex Workers, Labour Rights and Unionization
• Chapter 7 - Crime Justice and the Sex Industry in the UK
• Chapter 8 - Communities, Services and Welfare
• Chapter 9 - International Models of Regulating Sex Work
• Chapter 10 - Globalisation and the Sex Trade
• Chapter 11 - Researching the Sex Industry.
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The field of sex work has undergone a massive expansion in the past ten years. In this new edition, three leading researchers come together to provide an interdisciplinary outline of sex work. This book provides comprehensive coverage of key areas common to the study of the female sex industry, as well as considering issues relating to male and transgender sex workers, young people who are sexually exploited, and migrant sex workers. It also includes discussion of more recent forms of commercial sex such as Internet-based sex work. International in perspective, Prostitution combines sociological approaches with criminology and criminal justice studies, social policy, health research and sexuality studies. New to this edition: * Updated summaries of policy and law, particularly in relation to UK legal changes from 2008 onwards * Methodological insights and discussions on ethics, fieldwork and participatory action research * New images and case studies from the authors' research projects .
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• 1. The international legal definition--
• 2. The international legal framework--
• 3. Specific legal issues--
• 4. State responsibility for trafficking--
• 5. Obligations of protection and support--
• 6. Obligations related to repatriation and remedies--
• 7. Obligations of an effective criminal justice response--
• 8. Obligations to prevent trafficking and respond lawfully--
• 9. Issues of compliance, implementation, and effectiveness.
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Although human trafficking has a long and ignoble history, it is only recently that trafficking has become a major political issue for states and the international community and the subject of detailed international rules. Anne T. Gallagher calls on her direct experience working within the United Nations to chart the development of new international laws on this issue. She links these rules to the international law of state responsibility as well as key norms of international human rights law, transnational criminal law, refugee law and international criminal law, in the process identifying and explaining the major legal obligations of states with respect to preventing trafficking, protecting and supporting victims, and prosecuting perpetrators. This book is a groundbreaking work: a unique and valuable resource for policymakers, advocates, practitioners and scholars working in this controversial and important field.
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On the black market, they're the third most profitable commodity, after illegal weapons and drugs. The only difference is that these goods are human, to their handlers they are wholly expendable. They are women and girls, some as young as twelve, from all over the Eastern Bloc, where sinister networks of organized crime have become entrenched in the aftermath of the collapse of the Communist regimes. In Israel, they're called Natashas, whether they're actually from Russia, Bosnia, the Czech Republic, or Ukraine. Lured into vans and onto airplanes with promises of jobs as waitresses, models, nannies, dishwashers, maids, and dancers, they are then stripped of their identification, and their brutal nightmare begins. They are sold into prostitution and kept enslaved; those who resist are beaten, raped, and sometimes killed. They often have nowhere to turn. In many cases, the men who should be rescuing them--immigration officials, police officers, or international peacekeepers--are among their most hostile aggressors. The worldwide traffic in human beings is already a crisis of epic proportions, and it continues to grow. Victor Malarek here exposes the global phenomenon of sexual trafficking, a form of twenty-first century slavery and a multibillion-dollar industry whose scope has, until now, remained largely unknown. The Natashas is an indispensable and startling call to action to seek out institutional corruption and to put a stop to this heinous crime against humanity.
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• List of Illustrations and Tables Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Understanding Slavery Today
• Chapter 2. Slavery and the Human Right to Evil
• Chapter 3. No One Shall Be Held in Slavery or Servitude: A Critical Analysis of International Slavery Agreements
• Chapter 4. Slavery and the Emergence of Non-governmental Organizations
• Chapter 5. The Challenge of Measuring Slavery
• Chapter 6. Globalization and Redemption
• Chapter 7. Human Trafficking: A Worldwide Concern
• Chapter 8. Understanding the Demand behind Human Trafficking Coda: Three Steps to Stopping Slavery (And Four Things You Can Do Right Away)
• Appendix 1. Slavery Research Questions Used in Case Studies
• Appendix 2. Rankings of Countries on Ordinal Scales for Slavery and Trafficking Notes Index.
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Although slavery is illegal throughout the world, we learned from Kevin Bales' highly praised expose, "Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy", that more than twenty-seven million people - in countries from Pakistan to Thailand to the United States - are still trapped in bondage. With this new volume, Bales, the leading authority on modern slavery, looks beyond the specific instances of slavery described in his last book to explore broader themes about slavery's causes, its continuation, and how it might be ended. Written to raise awareness and deepen understanding, and touching again on individual lives around the world, this book tackles head-on one of the most urgent and difficult problems facing us today. Each of the chapters in "Understanding Global Slavery" explores a different facet of global slavery. Bales investigates slavery's historical roots to illuminate today's puzzles. He explores our basic ideas about what slavery is and how the phenomenon fits into our moral, political, and economic worlds. He seeks to explain how human trafficking brings people into our cities and how the demand for trafficked workers, servants, and prostitutes shapes modern slavery. And he asks how we can study and measure this mostly hidden crime. Throughout, Bales emphasizes that to end global slavery, we must first understand it. This book is a step in that direction.
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