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Author: Siddharth Kara
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Imprint: Columbia University Press
Edition: With a new preface by the author
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9780231180337
ISBN 10: 0231180330
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 29 August 2017
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Language: English
Reviews
A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. * Irish Times * An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. * Financial Times * Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation
A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. Irish Times An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. Financial Times Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves Siddharth Kara possesses that rare and valuable combination of passion for his subject, insight, and rigorous research. His analysis is persuasive and his descriptions heartbreaking in their clarity. Human trafficking in all forms is slavery, no matter how you cut it, and in this book Kara brings a modern-day scourge to the light of day. -- Erica Stone, president, American Himalayan Foundation
A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry. Irish Times An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity. Financial Times Sex trafficking is more of a problem than most people realize. Read this well-written book and find out. -- Kirk Douglas The best book ever written on human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Representing a new period of solid yet humane scholarship, this breakthrough analysis represents a quantum leap in the study of this subject. Simply beyond anything I have seen anywhere. -- Kevin Bales, president of Free the Slaves
Author Information
Siddharth Kara is the first Fellow on Human Trafficking with the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. He advises several governments as well as private and non-governmental organizations on antislavery policy and law and is the author of Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (Columbia, 2012).
