Sex Trafficking

Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Siddharth Kara

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Columbia University Press
29 August 2017

Ethical issues: prostitution & sex industry

Since the publication of Sex Trafficking in 2007, Siddharth Kara has continued to travel across countries and continents, documenting the local factors and economic forces that support sexual slavery worldwide. His riveting encounters with victims and traffickers informed his screenplay for Trafficked (2016), now a major motion picture. The film features familiar figures from Sex Trafficking and the shocking conditions of their exploitation. It also includes cases Kara has uncovered since his book debuted.

This new paperback edition of Sex Trafficking includes a preface by Kara in which he discusses his findings and updates the statistics relating to his business and economic analysis of contemporary slavery. After fifteen years, Kara has recorded nearly 900 cases of sex trafficking in forty-one countries and has helped advise on numerous legal, tactical, and policy efforts for abolishing modern-day slavery across the globe. Sex Trafficking continues to lead as a resource for those hoping to expose this hidden evil and eradicate its practice once and for all.

By: Siddharth Kara
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: With a new preface by the author
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780231180337
ISBN 10: 0231180330
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 August 2017
Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Undergraduate , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Preface Acknowledgments 1. Sex Trafficking: An Overview 2. India and Nepal 3. Italy and Western Europe 4. Moldova and the Former Soviet Union 5. Albania and the Balkans 6. Thailand and the Mekong Subregion 7. The United States 8. A Framework for Abolition: Risk and Demand Appendix A: Selected Tables and Notes Appendix B: Contemporary Slavery Economics Appendix C: Selected Human Development Statistics Notes Works Cited Index

Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).

Reviews for Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. * Irish Times * An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. * Financial Times * Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation