January: Human Trafficking

In anticipation of January, the month that recognizes human trafficking, we have listed some available sources that address this important topic.

1. Human Trafficking around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight.

   By Stephanie Hepburn and Rita J. Simon (Columbia University Press, 2013)

   Stephanie Hepburn is an independent journalist and Rita J. Simon a justice scholar. Their book              explores forced labor, organ trafficking, and sex tourism across twenty-four nations, including Chile,      Iran, France, and the United Arab Emirates. They weave in personal accounts and interviews with         statistical data to argue that factors such as economics and societal inequality influence human             trafficking.

2. Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective.

    By Louise Shelley (Cambridge University Press, 2010).

    The author is a University Professor at George Mason University's School of Public Policy. She is also the founder and director of the Terrorism, Transnational Crime and Corruption Center. In this book, she predicts that human trafficking will increase due to growing demographic and economic inequalities and worsening global conflicts. To bolster her argument, she relies on her own interviews and field work as well as cases and reports.

Additionally, the library possesses Congressional hearings concerning human trafficking on micro-film.

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