Table of Contents

Part 1: Prologue

Introduction: Theorizing Human Trafficking

Chapter 1: Globalizing Forces and Human Trafficking

Abu K. Mboka

Chapter 2: Recalibrating Moral Compasses: A Global Conceptual History of Human Trafficking, 1870-2020

Ruth Ennis

Chapter 3: Globalization and Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women’s Bodies in India

Rekha Pande

Chapter 4: Human Trafficking, Antitrafficking, and Contemporary Theory

Bob Spires

Part 2: Legislations and Conventions

Chapter 5: Human Trafficking and the Law in Canada

Veronica Fynn Bruey

Chapter 6: Liquid Bodies in the Postmodern Era: A Critical Legal Studies Approach to the Problem of Human Trafficking

Áquila Mazzinghy

Chapter 7: The International Sex Trade and the Global Problem of Sex Trafficking

Robert O. White

Chapter 8: Combating Global Trafficking in Persons: The Role of the United States Post-September 2001

Emmanuel E. Obuah

Part 3: Overview of Regional Undercurrents

Chapter 9: The Effect of Climate Change on Human Trafficking in South 24 Parganas in the Sundarban Delta Region, India

Subir Rana and Suchismita Roy

Chapter 10: The Intersection of Nation-State Sovereignty and the Violation of Human Rights: An Examination of the Uyghurs and Human Trafficking in the People’s Republic of China

Alecia D. Hoffman

Chapter 11: Voiceless Rohingyas: From Refuges to Modern Slaves

Sagarika Naik and Yasser Arafath

Chapter 12: Sex Trafficking of Girls Focus on Latin American and the Caribbean

Brenda I. Gill and Jesse McKinnon

Chapter 13: Communication Factors That Reveal Human Traffickers’ Deceptions to their Latin American and Caribbean Victims

Ivon Alcime

Part 4: The Geographical Patterns, Costs, and Consequences

Chapter 14: The Spatial Distribution of Human Trafficking: A Global Analysis

Augustine Avwunudiogba and Elisha J. Dung

Chapter 15: House Girls and House Boys: The Precarious Nature of Domestic Servitude in Southern Nigeria

Robin P. Chapdelaine

Chapter 16: Socioeconomic Hardship, Sociocultural Apprehension, and Human Trafficking

Abu K. Mboka

Chapter 17: The Trauma and Consequences of Human Trafficking

Kizito N. Okeke

Chapter 18: Mapping the Patterns of Human Trafficking in and from Africa

Leonard S. Bombom, Ibrahim Abdullahi, and Chinedu J. Anyamele

Conclusion

About the Author

Elisha J. Dung is associate professor and coordinator of geography in the Department of Advancement Studies in the University College at Alabama State University.

Augustine Avwunudiogba is a professor of geography in the Department of Anthropology, Geography, and Ethnic Studies at California State University Stanislaus.

Reviews

Human Trafficking: Global History and Global Perspectives by Elisha J. Dung and Augustine Avwunudiogba is a timely, pleasant, and brilliant addition to the growing literature on one of the scourges facing our civilization. As an edited volume, the editors assembled scholars from around the world and from different but complementary academic disciplines. By so doing, they helped to expand and illuminate our understanding of human trafficking.
*Sabella O. Abidde, Alabama State University*

This is a remarkable book on the prevalent and concerning global phenomenon of human trafficking. It is an edited volume that captures in eighteen well-researched chapters on the historical, socioeconomic, cultural, and legal aspects of contemporary human trafficking worldwide. The contributors, derived from a broad variety of scholarly backgrounds, some of whom are fresh voices, have also systematically analyzed the problem of human trafficking from varying theoretical perspectives that are grounded within socio-cultural and spatial contexts. The multidisciplinary nature of this book shines probing insights on this illicit commodification of human bodies and makes it an essential read for all stakeholders including scholars, governments, public policymakers, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and international organizations concerned with and interested in further understanding and finding solutions to the problem of trafficking in persons.
*George K. Danns, University of North Georgia*