Borderline Slavery: Mexico, United States, and the Human Trade

by Susan Tiano (Editor), Moira Murphy-Aguilar (Editor)

Overview

Exploring human trafficking in the US - Mexico borderlands as a regional expression of a pressing global problem, Borderline Slavery sheds light on the contexts and causes of trafficking, offering policy recommendations for addressing it that do justice to border communities' complex circumstances. This book focuses on both sexual and labor trafficking, proceeding thematically from global to regional levels to provide an empirically grounded, theoretically informed, and policy-relevant approach, which examines the problem through the eyes of scholars and researchers from various fields, as well as journalists, public officials, law enforcement personnel, victims' advocates and NGO representatives. Discussing the multinational networks, global economics, and personal motives that fuel a multibillion dollar trade in human beings as cheap labor, Borderline Slavery suggests future directions for effective policies and law enforcement strategies to prevent the advance of human trafficking. As such, it will be of interest to both policy makers and scholars across the social sciences working in the fields of migration, exploitation and trafficking.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317173168
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	04/08/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	298
File size:	955 KB

About the Author

Susan Tiano is Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is author of Patriarchy on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry and co-editor of Women on the United States-Mexico Border: Responses to Change. Moira Murphy-Aguilar worked at the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso and taught in the Latin American and Border Studies Program. Previously she was a Professor of Administration and Social Sciences at Monterrey Tech in Mexico. Her publications include the books Ciudad Juárez: Entre la Frontera y el Mundo and Educación e Investigación: Retos y Oportunidades.

Table of Contents

Part I The Global Context; Chapter 1 Introduction, Susan Tiano; Chapter 2 Human Trafficking, Susan Tiano; Chapter 3 Migration, Sandro Calvani, Olivia Jung, Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia; Chapter 4 Trafficking in Women and Girls, Kathryn Farr; Part II Human Trafficking in Mexico; Chapter 5 Trata de Personas, Gustavo de Unánue Aguirre; Chapter 6 Corazón Azul, Roberto Rodríquez Hernández; Chapter 7 Sex Trafficking in Mexico, Jenny Clark; Chapter 8 Assessing Human Trafficking in Mexico, Brenner Allen; Part III Human Trafficking along the U.S.–Mexico Border; Chapter 9 Human Trafficking and the U.S.–Mexico Border, Tony Payan; Chapter 10 The Best Smugglers in El Paso, David B. Ham; Chapter 11 Human Trafficking Through Mexico and the Southwest Border, Richard J. Schaefer, Carolyn Gonzales; Chapter 12 Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Stephanie Hepburn; Part IV Combating Human Trafficking; Chapter 13 Roadblocks to Legal Help for Trafficking Victims, Lise Olsen; Chapter 14 A Model for Coordination in Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces, Virginia McCrimmon; Chapter 15 Combating Human Trafficking in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, Moira Murphy-Aguilar, Susan Tiano;

Editorial Reviews

'This magnificent, yet painful-to-read volume offers theoretically rich yet grounded and accessible chapters on modern-day trafficking in human beings. The volume covers the global to local: world economic systems and United Nations actions to various parts of the U.S.-Mexico border and the NGO activists and law enforcement personnel therein.' Kathleen Staudt, University of Texas at El Paso, USA

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