Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking

Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking.

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Utgivningsdatum:2018-07-18
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:350 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:153
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319782133

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Christiana Gregoriou is an Associate Professor in English Language at Leeds University’s School of English, UK. She is a specialist in crime fiction stylistics, and employs critical linguistic analysis to the study of crime fiction but also other crime-related discourse (including media texts and the true crime genre).

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Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.- Chapter 2: “Call for purge on the people traffickers”: An investigation into British newspapers’ representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.- Chapter 3: Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts – Narratological and Media Studies Approaches; Nina Muždeka.- Chapter 4: “In the suitcase was a boy”: Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer.- Chapter 5: Who are the Traffickers? A cultural criminological analysis of traffickers as represented in the Al Jazeera documentary series Modern Slavery: A Twenty-First Century Evil; Melissa Dearey.- Conclusion; Ilse A. Ras.