From Rescue to Representation: A Human Rights Approach to the Contemporary Antislavery Movement

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Anatomy of Offending: Human Trafficking in the United States, 2006–2011

“…Since the late nineteenth century, a notion has existed in the global community that human trafficking, specifically of women and children, has continued as an underground slave trade (Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2015;Chuang, 2006;Doezema, 2002;Williams, 1999;Friman & Reich, 2007). Currently, there is little debate that the global sex trade drives the trafficking of persons for the purpose of sexual exploitation.…”

“…2 Since the decline of legal slavery during the age of emancipation, the subject of the commercial trade of peoples has been rooted in discussions of the sex trade (Davis, 2014). During the past two decades, attention on human trafficking has led to an increase in anti-trafficking legislation throughout much of the developed world (Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2015;Dragiewicz, 2015). The implications of this interest are numerous.…”

Female Perpetrators in Internal Child Trafficking in China: An Empirical Study

“…Toward the end of this article I argue that internal child trafficking in China should be incorporated into the long-running debates surrounding human trafficking occupying the AngloAmerican world in which commonalities can be easily identified (Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2015) whilst the perspectives of "others" have become the marginalised that has little impact on theory, policy and practice.…”

“…This serves to place the present study in the international criminological framework and also provide some contextual background. This framing is intentional, in light of recent work suggesting there are several frameworks for understanding trafficking and slavery (Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2015;see also Brysk and Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2012).…”

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“…This article wants to Fixing the Disjuncture, Inverting the Drift: Decolonizing Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery. Lazzarino these terms and approaches (Choi-Fitzpatrick, 2015;Nicholson et al, 2018;Patterson & Zhuo, 2018;Stoyanova, 2017). A continuing debate surrounds the meaning of the terms modern slavery and human trafficking as well as the relationship between them (UNODC, 2016).…”