Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction

   • Elżbieta M. Goździak

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3. Understanding Security and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century

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   2. Human Trafficking: Old Phenomenon, New Meaning(s)

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   3. Human Trafficking as a Security Threat

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      Pages 33-50

4. Fear of the Other

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   2. Closing US Refugee Resettlement with the Stroke of a Pen

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   3. Fortress Europe

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5. Lived Experiences of (In)Security

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   2. Drug Mules, Foot Guides, or Victims of Child Trafficking?

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   3. Young and Male Asylum Seekers: A Security Threat to the European Union?

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   4. Conclusions: Way Forward

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6. Back Matter

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This book challenges the rhetoric linking ‘war on terror’ with ‘war on human trafficking’ by juxtaposing lived experiences of survivors of trafficking, refugees, and labor migrants with macro-level security concerns. Drawing on research in the United States and in Europe, Goździak shows how human trafficking has replaced migration in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with migrants and analyzes lived experiences of (in)security of trafficked victims, irregular migrants, and asylum seekers.   .

• Human Trafficking as Security Risk
• Human Security
• From Trafficking to Terror
• Security and Migration
• United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• smuggling
• human traffickers
• trafficking

Security and Human Trafficking is a significant contribution to our holistic understanding of the interplay of human trafficking and national security. Elzbieta Gozdziak challenges the famous oratory on these issues by disentangling factual truths from populist rhetorics by focusing on rich empirical data collected in Hungary, Poland, and the United States. 

- Ludmila Bogdan, Ph.D., immigration and human trafficking scholar at Harvard University.

 

Elzbieta M. Gozdziak brings decades of ethnographic research on human trafficking and international migration to powerfully critique the conflation of human trafficking and migration with national security threats such as terrorism and organized crime.  She masterfully shows how the inaccurate framing of human trafficking as a security threat in the United States and Europe has led to costly and high stakes policy actions -- enhanced border control, anti-immigration, and surveillance measures -- that increase insecurity and lead to negative economic, military, and diplomatic consequences.  If we care about solving the problem of human trafficking, Gozdziak’s call to interrogate policy framings and demand better empirical data to justify those framings will lead to better policy solutions and outcomes to combat human trafficking on the ground.  Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat is a must-read for students, experts, and practitioners interested in the nexus of human trafficking, migration, and national security.   

-Kathleen M. Vogel, Ph.D, Professor and Deputy Director, School for the Future of Innovation in Society, Tempe, Arizona. Vogel is co-author of Human Trafficking Trends in the Western Hemisphere.   

• Center for Migration Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Pozna´n, Poland

  Elżbieta M. Goździak

Elżbieta M. Goździak is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Previously, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University. She held the George Soros Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

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