Human Trafficking

Human trafficking: A Global Perspective

Louise Shelley

DATE PUBLISHED: July 2010

Number of Pages: 295

This book examines all forms of human trafficking globally, revealing the operations of the trafficking business and the nature of the traffickers themselves. Using a historical and comparative perspective, it demonstrates that there is more than one business model of human trafficking and that there are enormous variations in human trafficking in different regions of the world..

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The book's introduction presents data that demonstrate the global scope of the problem. Shelley relies on reports of the International Labor Organization , UN Office on Drugs and Crime , International Organization for Migration , and the US Department of State.

Two chapters in Part I explain why human trafficking has flourished. Since trafficking results from poverty, civil war, and economic problems, Shelley concludes that the sale of human cargo has become and will remain a significant global scourge.

the analysis in Part II on the business of human trafficking addresses the critical importance of profit and risk. And we found it to be particularly illuminating. Shelley did considerable research on how the economic decline resulting from the breakup of the Soviet Union facilitated the growth of a Russian mafia and a major increase in trafficking women from Eastern Europe. She provides intelligent perspective in pinpointing and attacking critical economic elements of the rapidly growing global business.

Five chapters in Part III provide local perspectives with a lot of detail about specific cases from media reports, web sites, anti-trafficking organizations and official governments. Shelley effectively shows the great variety of abuses in different parts of the world. She concludes that different anti-trafficking strategies must be implemented based on local market conditions: "There is no single strategy that will work in stemming the growth of human...