Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight

This book puts dozens of countries under one similar structure: introduction, external and internal trafficking, consequence for both traffickers and victims and internal efforts towards this issue. Following this structure it is very easy to find the similarities and differences among different cases. But this good order comes at a price, authors do not provide us deep or micro-level case studies. Like the chapter of UK, if there is more illustration on how conflicting agenda works and how double opposite duties cause the incapability of government agency, the issue will be clearer and helpful for readers to take further consideration.

Gave a great variety of information on several countries, not just those stereotyped for human trafficking, and also gave the reader a good idea of who is to "blame" in a sense.

The book gave us a world perspective.

I liked the book it helped me with my research paper

This book is informative but it is repetitive and a bit boring. It is packed with statistics but arranged in a manner that makes it seem like the same ideas are being discussed over and over again. It's not the worst, but not the best either. Hence, I give it a mid-rating of 3 stars.

If you know nothing of human trafficking, this may be a good place to start. If you know something about it, skip this book. It contains mountains of data with no useful organization or sense of how widespread human trafficking is other than it is everywhere to some degree. How big does a problem need to be to be big? This book gives no sense of this. It also tends to shotgun the information. Within a single paragraph the book can address three or more aspects of the problem with no logical connections among them. In addition, I would guesstimate that 25% or more of the text belongs in footnotes. Some detail provides useful examples; too much becomes very boring, repetitive, and distracting. The book would have been much better had it been organized by themes clearly presented in the book under each country, then providing a sense of how much each theme is present in some countries/regions versus others and how particular national/regional variations affect those themes. Instead the book is nauseatingly repetitive with no sense of context or scale relative to other countries/regions.

I found “Human Trafficking Around The World,” very enlightening. I was aware of the two most common types of Trafficking, sex and labor, but I was shocked to learn that humans are also Trafficked for harvesting organs that can be sold, and for sacrifices in cultural ceremonies. The author did an incredible job of researching the 24 nations profiled.This book besides being informative can be used as a reference source to someone wishing to explore the topic further. The chapter structure enables the reader to more easily compare and contrast the nations' statistics, laws, treatment of victims and traffickers. I also found it interesting that some laws, designed to deter Trafficking, may actually prove to be advantageous to traffickers' who take of advantage of “Open Border” immigration.A wonderful book, very relevant to our times. I highly recommend it.

If you think slavery doesn't exist in the 21st century, you'll be in for a shock when you read this.This book is a look into the world of human trafficking. It looks at the policies of 24 countries (including the US) regarding this issue as well as look at who's being trafficked into the countries profiled & where they end up (either in the sex business or as manual labor), how the trafficked people are treated by their captors as well as law enforcement & how the law treats traffickers. The book also looks into rather of not the profiled country's a hub for under-age sex tourism. Nearly every chapter has cases/accounts from those who were victims of what is often called "modern-day slavery."While I personally felt that this book could be better, it still does a good job covering this subject. I did enjoyed reading it & it is well researched (with over 100 pages of references, it have better be). While not without its flaws, this is still a good book on the issue on human trafficking & how the countries of the world looks at it.

very interesting read. Good analyses by country and what measures they are doing to stop and to support victims. Really pleased with my buy. Good buy for my work as a social worker

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I learn a lot about Human Trafficking by reading this book.

A lot of information about a problem that most people fail to understand.