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The International Politics of Human Trafficking

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Authors:
  1. Gillian Wylie

    1. Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • Identifies the gap between heightened rhetoric surrounding human trafficking and the evidence for the claims about it
  • Analyses the way trafficking discourses are being used in the European political response to the migration crisis
  • Traces the life-cycle of the anti-trafficking norm from emergence to becoming 'common knowledge'

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: The International Politics of Human Trafficking

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 1-19

  3. Norm Construction in International Politics

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 21-41

  4. Norm Emergence: Entrepreneurs, Interests and the Palermo Protocol

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 43-71

  5. Norm Cascade and the Hegemon

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    Pages 73-97

  6. Norm Socialisation: Localising the Global, Regionalising the Local

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 99-128

  7. The Neglected Norm: Trafficking for Forced Labour

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 129-155

  8. The Far End of the Norm Lifecycle: Common Knowledge and Its Consequences

    • Gillian Wylie
    Pages 157-178

  9. Conclusion: Why Trafficking and with What Consequences?

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    Pages 179-187

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 189-197
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About this book

This book explores the international politics behind the identification of human trafficking as a major global problem. Since 2000, tackling human trafficking has spawned new legal, security and political architecture. This book is grounded in the premise that the intense response to this issue is at odds with the shaky statistics and contentious definitions underpinning it. Given the disparity between architecture and evidence, Wylie asks why human trafficking has become widely understood as a threat to personal and state security in today's world. Relying on the idea of 'norm lifecycle' from constructivist International Relations, this volume traces the rise and impact of anti-trafficking activism. Global common knowledge about trafficking is now established, but at a cost. Taking issue with the predominant framing of trafficking as sexual exploitation, this book focuses on how contemporary globalization causes labour exploitation, while the concept of trafficking legitimates states' securitized responses to migration.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Gillian Wylie

About the author

Gillian Wylie is Assistant Professor of International Peace Studies in Trinity College Dublin. Her research and teaching interests span human trafficking and migration, international politics and gender issues as they relate to war and peace. 

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