Human trafficking, forced labour, unlawful migration and slavery remain politically loaded, empirically obtuse and ambiguous terms that fail to impact on creating better livelihoods. This book builds on the authors previous book "Sex Trafficking "to re-examine international counter-trafficking scholarship and policy and re-engage with the original data to produce a renewed call for specific forms of research and inquiry to better understand and respond to the range of exploitative practices and conditions that give rise to human trafficking.

This book makes a significant contribution to...

The Routledge Handbook on Crime and International Migration is concerned with the various relationships between migration, crime and victimization that have informed a wide criminological scholarship often driven by some of the original lines of inquiry of the Chicago School. Historically, migration and crime came to be the device by which Criminology and cognate fields sought to tackle issues of race and ethnicity, often in highly problematic ways. However, in the contemporary period this body of scholarship is inspiring scholars to produce significant evidence that speaks to...