Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking / Edition 1 available in Hardcover, Paperback, eBook
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking / Edition 1
- ISBN-10:
- 1138892068
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138892064
- Pub. Date:
- 09/12/2017
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
- ISBN-10:
- 1138892068
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138892064
- Pub. Date:
- 09/12/2017
- Publisher:
- Taylor & Francis
Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking / Edition 1
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Edited by a team of leading international academics, the Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking will provide an interdisciplinary introduction to THB. It is aimed at academics, students, research universities and non-governmental organisations, as well as policy makers. It will review THB through the lens of law, anthropology, social and political science and will address statistical, data protection issues and showcase the most effective research methods, analyse the various actors and stakeholders and the different types of exploitation of trafficked persons. It will critically highlight and analyse the most pressing current challenges posed by THB.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781138892064 |
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Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
Publication date: | 09/12/2017 |
Series: | Routledge International Handbooks |
Pages: | 586 |
Product dimensions: | 6.88(w) x 9.69(h) x (d) |
About the Author
Conny Rijken is Professor of Human Trafficking and Globalisation at INTERVICT, Tilburg Law School, Tilburg University. Prof. Rijken has done extensive research on various aspects of trafficking in human beings including the European perspective, migration, labour exploitation and human rights. She has been leading several (EU funded) international and interdisciplinary research projects, e.g. ‘Combating THB for Labour Exploitation’, ‘Corporate Social Responsibility to Prevent Human Trafficking’ and one on Joint Investigation Teams. Central in her research is the focus on human rights and engagement with the position of the individual.
Baerbel Heide Uhl is a political scientist and has been working on anti-trafficking politics both in academia and in operational missions in Europe for more than two decades. She is a co-founder of the European NGO network ‘La Strada’ and a founder of the NGO initiative datACT, data protection in anti-trafficking action. Dr.Uhl held positions of anti-trafficking expert for the OSCE Mission to the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR). In addition, she advised EU candidate countries and new Member States, including Turkey, Croatia, Bulgaria and Romania, on European anti-trafficking policies within the framework of EU enlargement procedures. Dr.Uhl was a member of the European Commission’s Experts Group to Combat Trafficking in Human Beings from 2003-2007 and served as the Chairperson to the second Group from 2008-2011. She is a Member of the Advisory Board of La Strada International. She earned her PhD and her Diploma in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin.