Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat

Analyses different security facets of human trafficking, at the global, national/regional, and human level
Provides original empirical evidence from ethnographic research in the United States, Hungary, Moldova, and Poland

Argues that in a post 9/11 world, securitized notions of human trafficking are slowly replacing traditional concepts of migration and mobility

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

Autorentext

El bieta M. Go dziak is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznä. 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.

Klappentext

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, Gödziak 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. .

Inhalt
Introduction.- PART ONE: Understanding security and human trafficking in the 21st century.- Chapter One: Human trafficking: Old phenomenon, new meaning(s).- Chapter Two: Human Trafficking as a Security Threat.- PART TWO: Fear of the Other.- Chapter Three: Closing US refugee resettlement with the stroke of a pen.- Chapter Four: Fortress Europe.- PART THREE: Lived experiences of (in)security.- Chapter Five: Drug mules, foot guides, or victims of child trafficking?.- Chapter Six: Young and male asylum seekers: A security threat to the European Union?.- Conclusions: Way forward.