List of tables; Map; Acknowledgments; Note; Introduction; 1. Unfree labour in Russian history; 2. The politics of getting human trafficking onto agendas; 3. Press reporting on human trafficking out of Russia; 4. Public attitudes on human trafficking; 5. How the public talks about human trafficking; 6. Expert narratives on human trafficking; 7. Migration flows into Russia and reports on forced labour; 8. Policy and legislation on labour migrants; 9. Migration experts talking; 10. Public opinion on migrant labour; 11. Conclusion; Glossary; Select bibliography; Index.
Discusses human trafficking out of the Russian Federation since the collapse of the Soviet state, and labour migration into and within Russia.
Mary Buckley is a Fellow of Hughes Hall at the University of Cambridge. She has published extensively in the field of Soviet and post-Soviet politics, society, history and foreign policy. Her books include Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin's Fields (2006), Redefining Russian Society and Polity (1993) and Women and Ideology in the Soviet Union (1989).
'Mary Buckley's path-breaking book illuminates timely and under
studied issues related to human trafficking and labour migration
flows, including how official governmental policy toward migrant
streams from Central Asia and Eastern Ukraine has evolved as well
as the rise of hostile public attitudes toward migrant labourers.
The author pulls together a rich tapestry of evidence - government
documents, interviews with key state actors, policy experts, NGO
activists, newspaper articles, and personally designed survey
research and focus groups - to provide the reader with a thorough
and compelling picture of how Russia grapples with 'unfree
labour'.' Carol Nechemias, Associate Professor Emerita of Political
Science and Public Policy, Pennsylvania State University
'In this wide-ranging and impressively written book, Mary Buckley
puts the phenomena of forced labour, migration and human
trafficking in Russia in their historical, contemporary and
geographic contexts. In doing so, she gives readers a nuanced and
deeper understanding of the dynamics of unfree labour in this
important region of the world. Using a multi-pronged approach that
looks at expert opinion, public attitudes, news coverage, law and
policy, Buckley investigates to what extent Russians perceive
trafficking and unfree labour to be a problem and how their
opinions have been constructed by media portrayals. In addition to
its many other contributions, Unfree Labour does a tremendous
service in helping to reveal why the sense of moral outrage that
has driven anti-trafficking policies elsewhere in the world has
often been missing in the Russian context. Overall, this exciting
and accessible book is a timely and important contribution for
understanding the dynamic processes of human trafficking and labour
migration in Russia today.' Lauren McCarthy, University of
Massachusetts Amherst
'… The Politics of Unfree Labour in Russia is a wealth of
interesting and insightful findings from years of research by one
of the most prominent scholars in the field. The timespan of the
research combined with the variety of qualitative methods used in
this book (interviews, surveys, focus groups, discourse analysis)
are remarkable. … I believe this will be a required volume to
anyone who studies migration flows in Eurasia. It would be of
interest to social scientists as well as scholars interested in
rule of law, gender, and the history of labor in Russia. I also
believe that this book is an excellent example of different kinds
of complementary qualitative methods and how to combine them into a
cohesive narrative that paints a compelling story of trafficking
and unfree labor in Russia.' Laura Dean, The Soviet and Post-Soviet
Review
'Buckley's book convinces with its diverse data material, which
gives new insights into how exploitation and violations of rights
are handled in Russian society.' Julia Glathe, Journal Of European
Asia Studies
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