Human Trafficking

Bandana Purkayastha is Professor of Sociology and Asian American Studies at the University of Connecticut, USAFarhan Navid Yousaf is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the International Islamic University, Pakistan

“This book is a major contribution to research and policy making on human trafficking. The authors narrate through the dark side of globalization but offer hope and a way forward for a trafficking-free world.”Yakın Ertürk, Middle East Technical University, Turkey, and former UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women“Purkayastha and Yousaf offer important sociological insights by carefully considering the challenges and complexities in connecting frameworks, protocols, and policies to the contexts and conditions that contribute to the persistence and change in addressing the social problem of human trafficking.”Margaret Abraham, Hofstra University, USA, and former President of the International Sociological Association”Worth mentioning here (and deserving of praise), is the authors’ particular focus on the literature coming from the Global South, as these contributions have been mostly sidelined, if not neglected in the Anglo-centric counter-trafficking literature. The book also provides narratives (or ‘vignettes’) of victims/survivors of trafficking, a practice rare in the literature and encouraged by the international community. Such an approach should be both welcomed and reproduced in the literature in the future.”Border Criminologies

• 1. Introduction2. Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation3. Trafficking for Labor Exploitation4. Organ Trafficking5. The Other Side of Trafficking: A Look at the Data and Policies on Trafficking6. Envisioning a Trafficking-Free World 7. Afterwords: Ongoing Debates and Unresolved Questions