Overview
- Argues that a robust refugee resettlement is not a threat but an asset to the national security
- Shows how human trafficking has replaced migration in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with refugees
- Asks how security concerns stemming from human trafficking can be reconciled with the need to protect victims
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Understanding Security and Human Trafficking in the 21st Century
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Fear of the Other
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Lived Experiences of (In)Security
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Reviews
- 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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat
Authors: Elżbieta M. Goździak
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62873-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62872-7Published: 06 January 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-62875-8Published: 07 January 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-62873-4Published: 05 January 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 138
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Security Studies, Human Rights, Organized Crime, Trafficking, Migration, Terrorism and Political Violence