What is human trafficking? This volume critically examines the competing discourses surrounding human trafficking, the conceptual basis of global responses and the impact of these horrific acts worldwide.

Acknowledgements; List of Contributors; 1. Contexts and Complexities, Margaret Malloch and Paul Rigby; 2. Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain, Kiril Sharapov; 3. The Application of International Legislation: Is the Federalisation of Anti-trafficking Legislation in Europe Working for Trafficking Victims?, Adam Weiss; 4. International and European Standards in Relation to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking, Kirsty Thomson; 5. Child Protection for Child Trafficking Victims, Paul Rigby and Philip Ishola; 6. Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Jim Laird; 7. Does It Happen Here?, Sheila Murie and Liz Owens; 8. Promoting Psychological Recovery in Victims of Human Trafficking, Sharon Doherty and Rachel Morley; 9. ‘We Cannot Collect Comprehensive Information on All of These Changes’: The Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating Reintegration; Efforts for Separated Children, Claire Cody; 10. Policing Forced Marriages Among Pakistanis in the United Kingdom, Stefano Bonino; 11. Criminalising Victims of Human Trafficking: State Responses and Punitive Practices, Margaret Malloch; 12. Root Causes, Transnational Mobility and Formations of Patriarchy in the Sex Trafficking of Women, Jackie Turner; 13. The New Raw Resources Passing Through the Shadows, Hazel Cameron; 14. Human Trafficking: Capital Exploitation and the Accursed Share, Bill Munro; Postscript, Margaret Malloch and Paul Rigby; Index