The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Dr. Jenny Bryson Clark is an Associate Professor of Political Science and chair of Women’s Studies at South Texas College. Her areas of expertise are forced migration, human trafficking, and gender inequality. For the last fifteen years, Clark has been actively involved in researching modern-day slavery. Clark is co-editor of Human Trafficking: A Complex Phenomenon of Globalization and Vulnerability Routledge (2015) and The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery, Sage, (2019) and Contemporary Slavery and Trafficking in Persons: Global Narratives, Maya Publishing House, New Delhi (2021). Clark’s past research, funded by the U.S. Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons (2015-2016), studied trafficking in persons in Central America and along Mexico’s eastern migration routes. Clark is currently conducting research on securitization and externalization of borders and the impact it has on human rights and human trafficking. She is a founding board member of the Rio Grande Anti Human Trafficking Coalition and in 2009; she received the South Texas Civil Rights Project’s Emma Tenayuca award for her work bringing to light the forms of trafficking and coercion that affect women. Clark also teaches classes on Human Trafficking and Prostitution and Human Trafficking at Oklahoma University.Sasha Poucki Ph.D. is an independent researcher, co-founder of non-profit organization, Azimuth 180°, an educator, and consultant. He holds a Ph.D. in Global Affairs from The Division of Global Affairs (DGA) at the Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey and a J.D. from The University of Novi Sad, Serbia. Dr. Poucki’s research interests include topics related to human trafficking and modern-day slavery, the processes of globalization, human rights, vulnerability of minority groups, business ethics and corporate responsibility, irregular migration, technology and society, cybercrime and international relations. He has taught courses at several universities in New Jersey in fields of international relations and political science, political geography, humanities and world civilizations, environmental ethics, international business and management, history of American immigration, and human trafficking. Dr. Poucki has presented at several conferences, subject expert panels, training sessions, and published in academic journals. He was co-editor with Jennifer Bryson Clark of The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern-Day Slavery. Dr. Poucki has conducted sponsored research in the U.S., India, Philippines, Paraguay, Mexico, Serbia, Kosovo, Croatia, and BiH.

The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery is a crucial contribution to the field and will prove an invaluable resource for scholars, practitioners, policy makers, and activists. It is the best book in the marketplace for anyone who wants a thorough grounding on the issues.

• Introduction - Jennifer B. Clark & Steve J. ShonePART 1: Defining Contemporary SlaveryChapter 1: Conceptualizing the Exploitation of Human Trafficking - Jean AllainChapter 2: International Legal Framework on Human Trafficking: Contemporary understandings and continuing confusions - Marika McAdamChapter 3: Assessing the Global Slavery Index - Monti Datta, Olivia Gustafson, Chloe Lubin-Kirchner, Gioia Kelleher & Rebecca BergChapter 4: Empirical Research on Sex Work and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia and a Critique of Methodologies for Obtaining Estimates of Human Trafficking Numbers - Thomas SteinfattPART 2: Forms of Human Trafficking and Contemporary SlaveryChapter 5: Labour trafficking - Aidan McQuadeChapter 6: Practices of Bonded Labour in India: Forms of Exploitation and Human Rights Violations - Arun Kumar Acharya & Diego López NaranjoChapter 7: The Evolving Concept of Worst Forms of Child Labor - Holly Cullen Chapter 8: Organ Trafficking: Transplant Tourism and Trafficking in Persons for the Removal of Organs - Sean ColumbPART 3: The Context of Human Trafficking and Contemporary SlaveryChapter 9: The business of human trafficking and modern slavery - Kam Phung & Andrew CraneChapter 10: Human Trafficking, Sexual Slavery, and Extremism - Gus MartinChapter 11: Human trafficking, modern day slavery and organized crime - James FinckenauerChapter 12: Migration and Trafficking: The Unintended Consequences of Security and Enforcement Frameworks and the Revictimization of Vulnerable Groups - Jennifer B. Clark & Steve J. Shone PART 4: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Human Trafficking and Contemporary SlaveryChapter 13: A Survivor Centric Approach: The Importance of Contemporary Slave Narratives to the Anti-Slavery Agenda - Andrea NicholsonChapter 14: Trafficking in Human Beings: The Convergence of Criminal Law and Human Rights - Roza PatiChapter 15: Pretty Vacant: Stolen Girls/Girlhoods in Anti-Trafficking Discourses - Treena Orchard Chapter 16: Indigenous women in trafficking: links between race, ethnicity and class - Natividad Gutierrez ChongPART 5: Case StudiesChapter 17: The identification of trafficking victims in Europe and the former Soviet Union - Rebbeca Surtees & Anette BrunovskisChapter 18: Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Children in the West African Region - Charles HounmenouChapter 19: Identifying Human Trafficking Victims Under the Sharia Law in Iran - Roksana AlaviChapter 20: Impacts of Cultural Practices and Anti Trafficking Policies in South East Asia - Diego López Naranjo & Arun Kumar AcharyaChapter 21: Human Trafficking in North America - Amy Farrell and Rebecca PfefferChapter 22: Legal Yet Enslaved: The Case of Migrant Farm Workers in the United States - Maria Elena SandoviciChapter 23: Australia’s response to human trafficking nationally and regionally: the question of impact - Heather Moore, Marie Segrave, Bodean Hedwards & Sanja MilivojevicChapter 24: Child Workers: An Ugly Face in the Labour Industry - Rashmi PramanikPART 6: Ending Contemporary SlaveryChapter 25: The International Law Enforcement Community: Cooperative Efforts in Combating Human Trafficking - Rosalva Resendiz & Lucas E. EspinozaChapter 26: Identification, rescue and social intervention with the victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation in Spain - Carmen Meneses-Falcón and Jorge Uroz-OlivaresChapter 27: Organizational Configurations in Providing Social Services and Advocacy to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking - Chie Noyori Corbett, Jessica Hernandez & David MoxleyChapter 28: Contemporary social movements to end slavery – NGOs and beyond - Joanna Ewart-James & Matthew Fischer-Daly