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Is the only public health text focused solely on primary prevention of human trafficking
Provides recommendations on sustainable anti-trafficking work with a multi-generational impact examining how anyone can contribute to preventing human trafficking
Encourages readers to think critically about structural inequity and privilege in the anti-trafficking field
Advances the public health anti-trafficking movement by challenging longstanding societal and institutional factors that facilitate human trafficking
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Market Dynamics of Human Trafficking
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Governmental and Non-governmental Public Systems
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About this book
This textbook focuses on history’s utility in public health. It describes history to contextualize and explain present times, and provides public health lessons in trafficking prevention and intervention. Public health recognizes the importance of multiple systems to solve big problems, so the chapters illustrate how current anti-trafficking efforts in markets and public systems connect with historical policies and data in the United States. Topics explored include:
- Capitalism, Colonialism, and Imperialism: Roots for Present-Day Trafficking
- Invisibility, Forced Labor, and Domestic Work
- Addressing Modern Slavery in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Businesses
- Immigration, Precarity, and Human Trafficking: Histories and Legacies of Asian American Racial Exclusion in the United States
- Systemic and Structural Roots of Child Sex Trafficking: The Role of Gender, Race, and Sexual Orientation in Disproportionate Victimization
- The Complexities of Complex Trauma: An Historical and Contemporary Review of Healing in the Aftermath of Commercialized Violence
- Historical Context Matters: Health Research, Health Care, and Bodies of Color in the United States
Understanding linkages between contemporary manifestations of human trafficking with their respective historical roots offers meaningful insights into the roles of public policies, institutions, cultural beliefs, and socioeconomic norms in commercialized violence. The textbook identifies sustainable solutions to prevent human trafficking and improve the health of the Nation.
The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking is essential reading for students of public health, health sciences, criminology, and social sciences; public health professionals; academics; anti-trafficking advocates, policy-makers, taskforces, funders, and organizations; legislators; and governmental agencies and administrators.
Keywords
- primary prevention of human trafficking
- history of public health
- history of human trafficking
- racism and trafficking
- sexism and trafficking
- gender-based violence
- commercialized violence
- indigenous slavery
- economics and slavery
- human trafficking education
- human trafficking solutions
- sustainable change
- commercial sexual exploitation
- forced labor
- Trafficking Victims Protection Act
- root causes of human trafficking
- ethnicity, class, gender and crime
Editors and Affiliations
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Institute for Health Equity Research, Department of Emergency Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, USA
Makini Chisolm-Straker
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Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Brown University, Providence, USA
Katherine Chon
About the editors
Katherine Chon, MPA is a Bloomberg American Health Initiative Fellow at the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, in Baltimore, Maryland, focused on violence prevention based on eighteen years of experience developing organizations and shaping strategies to combat human trafficking. Ms. Chon is the founding director of the Office on Trafficking in Persons at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), strengthening the Nation’s public health response to human trafficking through data-driven policies, programs, and primary prevention. She is the federal executive officer of the National Advisory Committee on the Sex Trafficking of Children and Youth in the United States and serves on numerous federal interagency working groups including the Senior Policy Operating Group of the President’s Interagency Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons. Prior to government service, Ms. Chon was the co-founder and president of Polaris, establishing the global organization’s innovative programs to assist survivors of trafficking, expand anti-trafficking policies, and fundamentally change the way local communities respond to human trafficking. Ms. Chon is an advisor to Brown University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice and a member of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine’s Committee on Approaches to Estimating the Prevalence of Human Trafficking in the United States. She received her Master in Public Administration from Harvard University Kennedy School of Government in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. Any views expressed within this textbook are solely those of the respective authors and editors and do not necessarily represent the views of HHS or the United States.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Historical Roots of Human Trafficking
Book Subtitle: Informing Primary Prevention of Commercialized Violence
Editors: Makini Chisolm-Straker, Katherine Chon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70675-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70674-6Published: 23 May 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-70677-7Published: 24 May 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-70675-3Published: 22 May 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXIII, 336
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: Public Health, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Labour Law/Social Law, History of Medicine, Transnational Crime, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime