From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery

Over the last decade, public, political, and scholarly attention has focused on human trafficking and contemporary forms of slavery. Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi—Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation.

In From Human Trafficking to Human Rights, Brysk, Choi—Fitzpatrick, and a cast of experts demonstrate that it is time to recognize human trafficking as more a matter of human rights and s...