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Geography of Trafficking: From Colombian Cocaine to Vietnamese Sex Slaves, 1st Edition

  • Fred M. Shelley
  • Reagan Metz
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  • ISBN-10: 1440838232
  • ISBN-13: 9781440838231
  • DDC: 306.3
  • Grade Level Range: 9th Grade - College Senior
  • 408 Pages | eBook
  • Original Copyright 2017 | Published/Released January 2018
  • This publication's content originally published in print form: 2017

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About

Overview

This important reference work examines trafficking from a geographic perspective and investigates the driving forces behind it and the powers that are trying to curtail the problem.

Table of Contents

Front Cover.
Half Title Page.
Title Page.
Copyright Page.
Contents.
Preface.
Introduction.
List of Maps.
Trafficking Origins, Transportation, and Destinations.
1: The Trafficking Process.
2: International Boundaries.
3: International Migration.
4: Piracy.
Human Trafficking.
5: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
6: The Slave Trade in Historical Perspective.
7: Slavery.
8: Debt Bondage.
9: Forced Labor.
10: Prostitution, the Sex Trade, and Trafficking.
11: Marriage Trafficking.
12: Adoption and Trafficking.
13: Orphans and Trafficking.
14: Refugees.
15: Indigenous and Marginalized Populations.
Trafficking in Commodities.
16: Antiquities, Art, and Cultural Property.
17: Armaments.
18: Drugs and Drug Trafficking.
19: Gems and Precious Stones.
20: Wildlife.
21: Elephants and the Ivory Trade.
22: Trafficking in Rhinoceros Horns.
Country Profiles.
23: Afghanistan.
24: The Baltic Countries (Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania).
25: Barbados.
26: Brazil.
27: Bulgaria and Romania.
28: Canada.
29: Central America.
30: Central Asia.
31: China.
32: Colombia.
33: Côte D’ivoire.
34: Germany.
35: Guinea.
36: Haiti and the Dominican Republic.
37: India.
38: Indonesia.
39: Jamaica.
40: Laos.
41: Malaysia.
42: Mauritania.
43: Mexico.
44: Myanmar.
45: Namibia.
46: Nepal.
47: The Netherlands.
48: Nigeria.
49: North Africa.
50: Papua New Guinea.
51: Paraguay.
52: Philippines.
53: Qatar.
54: Russia.
55: Scandinavia.
56: Singapore.
57: Somalia.
58: South Africa.
59: South Sudan.
60: Spain.
61: Switzerland.
62: Syria.
63: Thailand.
64: Transcaucasia.
65: Trinidad and Tobago.
66: Turkey.
67: Ukraine.
68: United Arab Emirates.
69: United States.
70: Vietnam.
Primary Documents.
71: Abolishing Slavery and Its Contemporary Forms (2002).
72: Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (Cites).
73: Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import, Export and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property.
74: Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings.
75: Global Report on Trafficking in Persons.
76: Human Trafficking and United Nations Peacekeeping.
77: International Drug Control Conventions.
78: International Drug Control Cooperation.
79: Kimberley Process Certification Scheme.
80: Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children.
81: Southeast Asia Opium Survey.
82: United Nations Security Council, Resolution 2020.
83: United Nations Voluntary Trust Fund on Contemporary Forms of Slavery: Report of the Secretary-General.
84: The United States Department of State, Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Minimum Standards For the Elimination of Trafficking in Persons.
85: The United States Department of State Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, Trafficking in Persons Report 2016: Tier Placements.
86: Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act of 2000.
87: World Drug Report.
Selected Bibliography.
Index.
About the Author.