ECONIS Select – Stopping Human Trafficking

07/2010

Selected for the Global Economic Symposium 2010

The exploitation and trafficking of men, women and children is a humanitarian problem of global scale. At least 12 million people worldwide are trapped in conditions of forced labor, a fifth of these are being exploited as a result of human trafficking. These forms of modern day slavery have become one of the most profitable and most horrifying businesses in the world. Human trafficking and coerced labor is said to be the fastest growing source of income for organized crime and its third most important, exceeded only by drugs and arms trade. A fundamental reason for trafficking and exploitation is the demand for cheap workers and prostitutes in both developing and developed countries. At the same time, there are millions of poor and vulnerable people who are willing to depart and seek a better life abroad. But, with closed borders, there are only few legal job opportunities in destination countries. This situation has created a breeding ground for smugglers, traffickers and exploitative employers willing to use force or restraint to make a profit.

Against this backdrop, this session seeks to answer the following questions:

• Can the current anti-trafficking campaign have any real impact?
• Are more severe trafficking laws and amnesties to trafficking victims helpful, or do they exacerbate the problem?
• Could better information provision by both governments and businesses help, e.g., via overseas employment agencies, awareness campaigns, or migrant-tailored websites?
• Do we need a new global agency, or public-private-partnerships in the fight against trafficking? Should emigration countries do more to protect their citizens abroad?
• Finally, would open borders and more legal migration opportunities help mitigate the problem?

Literature selected from our database ECONIS:

• Title: The cost of coercion: global report under the follow-up to the ILO Declaration on Fundamental Principles and Rights at Work; International Labour Conference, 98th Session 2009, Report I (B) / International Labour Office
  Corporate body: International Labour Office
  Published: Geneva: Internat. Labour Off., 2009
  Subject heading: Forced labour / International labour standards / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: Forced labor: coercion and exploitation in the private economy / ed. by Beate Andrees; Patrick Belser
  Published: Boulder, Colo. [u.a.]: Rienner, 2009
  Subject heading: Forced labour / Human trafficking / Slavery / Crime against humanity / World
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: The entrapment of the poor into involuntary labor: understanding the worldwide practice of modern-day slavery / Adel S. Abadeer. With a foreword by Karl W. Schweizer
  Published: Lewiston, NY [u.a.]: Mellen, c 2008
  Subject heading: Poverty / Human trafficking / Forced labour / Slavery / Poverty alleviation / Institutional economics / India
  Link: Table of contents
• Article: Evidence on women trafficked for sexual exploitation: a rights based analysis / Francesca Bettio; Tushar K. Nandi
  In: European journal of law and economics. - Dordrecht [u.a.]: Springer Science + Business Media, ISSN 0929-1261, ZDB-ID 12315928. - Bd. 29.2010, 1, S. 15-42
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Prostitution / Civil right / Human rights / Organized crime / World
• Article: Trafficking in persons: a multi-sited view of international norms and local responses / Kay B. Warren
  In: Japanese aid and the construction of global development. - London [u.a.]: Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-55448-0. - 2010, S. 217-232
  Subject heading: Development Aid / Development finance / International cooperation / Human trafficking / International labour mobility / Japan / Developing countries
• Article: As bad as it gets: well-being deprivation of sexually exploited trafficked women / Maria L. Di Tommaso; Isilda Shima; Steinar Strøm; Francesca Bettio
  In: European journal of political economy. - Amsterdam [u.a.]: Elsevier, ISSN 0176-2680, ZDB-ID 6230052. - Bd. 25.2009, 2, S. 143-162
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Prostitution / Quality of life / Theory / Capability approach
• Title: Human trafficking for labour exploitation: a framework for implementation of the crime of human trafficking for labour exploitation as defined in the European Council framework decision in EU countries / Jill Coster van Voorhout
  Published: Utrecht: Univ. of Utrecht, 2009
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Moonlighting / Illegal immigration / Community Law / Law enforcement / Belgium / Netherlands / United Kingdom / EU countries
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: The economic drivers of human trafficking: micro-evidence from five Eastern European countries / Toman Omar Mahmoud; Christoph Trebesch
  Published: Kiel: Kiel Inst. for the World Economy, Febr. 2009
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Illegal immigration / Social network / Sociology of family / Incomplete information / Belarus / Bulgaria / Moldova / Romania
  Links:
  http://www.ifw-members.ifw-kiel.de/publications/the-economic-drivers-of-human-trafficking-micro-evidence-from-five-eastern-european-countries/kap1480.pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10419/24876 [Download: 10.02.2009]
• Article: International human trade: a marketing analysis / Patriya Tansuhaj; Jim McCullough
  In: Journal for global business advancement. - Olney, Bucks: Inderscience Enterprises, ISSN 1746-966X, ZDB-ID 21933832. - Bd. 1.2007/08, 2/3, S. 225-236
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Globalization / Marketing
• Article: Human trafficking as the shadow of globalization: a new challenge for Ukraine / Olga Pyshchulina
  In: Beyond states and markets. - London [u.a.]: Routledge, ISBN 0-415-77586-8. - 2008, S. 122-139
  Subject heading: Globalization / Social change / Human trafficking / Gender equality / Feminist economics / Ukraine
• Title: Streetwalkers show the way: reframing the global debate on trafficking from sex workers' perspectives / Nandinee Bandyopadhyay
  Published: Brighton: Institute of Development Studies, 2008
  Subject heading: Human trafficking / Prostitution / India / 1995-2007
• Title: The entrapment of the poor into involuntary labor: understanding the worldwide practice of modern-day slavery / Adel S. Abadeer. With a foreword by Karl W. Schweizer
  Published: Lewiston, NY [u.a.]: Mellen, c 2008
  Subject heading: Poverty / Human trafficking / Forced labour / Slavery / Poverty alleviation / Institutional economics / India
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: 2005 year book on illegal migration, human smuggling, and trafficking in Central and Eastern Europe: a survey and analysis of border management and border apprehension data from 22 states / Peter Futo; Michael Jandl (eds.)
  Corporate body: International Centre for Migration Policy Development
  Published: Vienna: International Centre for Migration Policy Development, 2006
  Subject heading: Migration statistics / |stw| Organized crime / |stw| Eastern Europe / |stw| CIS countries / |stw| Illegal immigration / Menschenhandel
• Title: Data and research on human trafficking: a global survey / ed. by Frank Laczko and Elzbieta Gozdziak
  Published: Oxford: Blackwell, 2005
  Subject heading: Humans / |stw| Delinquency / |stw| International migration / |stw| Migration statistics / |stw| Slavery / Menschenhandel
• Title: The economics of labor coercion / Daron Acemoglu; Alexander Wolitzky
  Published: Cambridge, Mass., 2009
  Subject heading: Labour Market / Employment relationship / Forced labour / Voluntary agreement / Agency theory / Developing countries
  Link: http://www.nber.org/papers/w15581.pdf
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• Title: Fighting forced labour: the example of Brazil / Patricía Trindade Maranhão Costa
  Published: Geneva: Internat. Labour Off., 2009
  Subject heading Forced labour / Rural area / Brazil
  Link: Table of contents
• Title: India's unfree workforce: of bondage old and new / ed. by Jan Breman ...
  Published: New Delhi [u.a.]: Oxford Univ. Press, 2009
  Subject heading: Forced labour / Slavery / Rural labour market / Social class / Labour / Human rights / History / India
  Link: Table of contents