Trafficking in Women in the European Union

Trafficking in women has become a severe human rights problem in the European Union. Currently the trade in human beings generates higher profits than trafficking drugs or weapons. The book describes the history and the dimension of the phenomenon in the EU. It centers around the question, when, how and why the European Union started to fight trafficking in women. The author argues that it has been due to power of international norms, successfully operating advocacy-networks and favorable political opportunity structures that the problem could draw public and political attention.

Norms, Advocacy-Networks and Policy-Change

Vorwort
Norms, Advocacy-Networks and Policy-Change

Autorentext
Dr. rer. pol. Birgit Locher is political consultant and works as a researcher at the University of Tübingen.

Inhalt
Norms in International Politics - Trafficking in Women and the EU: Elements of a Framework for Analysis - Actors in the 'Velvet Triangle' - Political Opportunity Structures - The Anti-Trafficking-Regime: Norm-Emergence in Historical Perspective - Trafficking and the European Community: The Silence of the Early Decades - The Extension of EU-Actions against Trafficking - The Consolidation of the EU's Anti-Trafficking Policy - Explaining Trafficking in Women in the European Union etc.