This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address to the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current international and state-based approaches to trafficking - which tend to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour - this book seeks to establish how marriage, as an institution, is often implicated in the occurrence of trafficking in women.

Through the use of case studies on forced marriage, mail-order bride (MOB) marriage, and Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, the book...