Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights

Since the highly acclaimed 2005 publication of the first edition of Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered, human trafficking has become virtually a household word, and attention to the issue among researchers and policymakers has escalated. This new edition adds vitally important updates related to recent developments. In an updated law chapter, Ratna Kapur traces shifts and changes in anti-trafficking legislation and policies internationally, especially under the influence of the Obama administration. In a new section, Jyoti Sanghera reports in her new chapter from her firsthand experience with global anti-trafficking policies as a UN Human Rights commissioner, offering analyses and reflections on the past five years, and Bandana Pattanaik examines dilemmas and paradoxes arising from recent GAATW feminist participatory action research on women's lived experiences of 'œtrafficking.'� The section concludes with a list of relevant websites, organizations, and publications useful for students, researchers, and activists. A new introduction looks more closely at the invention of 'œsex trafficking'� and its growing popularity amongst feminist researchers, as well at some recent national contestations to the U.S. TIP (Trafficking in Persons) reporting.