Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking

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.

Examines factual and fictional accounts of human trafficking published in several languages, in a range of countries and contexts Defines 'human trafficking' and provides a comprehensive review and critique of existing literature Highlights the impact of dominant narratives on the way in which trafficking and trafficking victims are categorised Published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license

Autorentext
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).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.- Chapter 2: Call for purge on the people traffickers: An investigation into British newspapers' representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.- Chapter 3: Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts Narratological and Media Studies Approaches; Nina Mudeka.- Chapter 4: In the suitcase was a boy: Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer.- Chapter 5: 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.- Conclusion; Ilse A. Ras.