Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking

1. Front Matter

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2. Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A Critical Review

   • Christiana Gregoriou, Ilse A. Ras

   Pages 1-24Open Access

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3. ‘Call for Purge on the People Traffickers’: An Investigation into British Newspapers’ Representation of Transnational Human Trafficking, 2000–2016

   • Christiana Gregoriou, Ilse A. Ras

   Pages 25-59Open Access

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4. Not All Human Trafficking is Created Equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts—Narratological and Media Studies Approaches

   • Nina Muždeka

   Pages 61-87Open Access

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5. “In the Suitcase was a Boy”: Representing Transnational Child Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction

   • Charlotte Beyer

   Pages 89-115Open Access

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6. Who are the Traffickers? A Cultural Criminological Analysis of Traffickers as Represented in the Al Jazeera Documentary Series Modern Slavery: A Twenty-first Century Evil

   • Melissa Dearey

   Pages 117-142Open Access

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7. Back Matter

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This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and seeks to explore both dominant and marginalised points of view. The authors take a cross-disciplinary approach, utilising analytical tools from across the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, literary and media studies, and cultural criminology. It will appeal to students, academics and policy-makers with an interest in human trafficking and its depiction in the modern day.

• open access
• modern slavery
• newspapers
• social policy
• law enforcement
• border force
• human trafficking
• News Media
• crime fiction
• transnational organised crime
• victim hierarchy
• critical discourse analysis
• corpus linguistics
• narratology
• child trafficking
• cultural criminology
• true crime
• documentary film
• stylistics
• discourse analysis
• trafficking

• School of English, University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom

  Christiana Gregoriou

Christiana Gregoriou is an Associate Professor in English Language at Leeds University’s School of English, UK. She is a specialist in crime fiction stylistics, and employs critical linguistic analysis to the study of crime fiction but also other crime-related discourse (including media texts and the true crime genre).

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