© Columbia University Press
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Paper, 320 pages, 26 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13961-8
$16.95
/ £11.95
November, 2008
Cloth, 320 pages, 26 illus.
ISBN: 978-0-231-13960-1
$24.95
/ £16.95
"An impressive, scholarly book that will prove an asset for the global anti-trafficking movement in the next decade." — Holly Burkhalter, Stanford Social Innovation Review
"A disturbing and illuminating study of one of the underbellies of economic globalization: the global sex trafficking industry." — Padraig Carmody, Irish Times
"An eloquent, campaigning book that addresses an evil that belittles our humanity." — Jonathan Birchall , Financial Times
"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
"This book could not be more important. After years of witnessing slavery and meeting with slaves, Siddharth Kara illuminates one of our most pressing human rights issues. He offers brand new research and reliable facts, shattering the myths and sensationalism that tend to surround this topic. Everyone should read this book: it will change the way we think about our world." — Zoe Trodd, Harvard University
"Siddharth Kara has done a great service by laying bare the realities of sexual exploitation of women and girls around the world and the scale of this modern slavery. His analysis is rooted in an understanding of the way unregulated economic globalization has impoverished whole regions, failed to improve the miserable lot of women in many countries, and facilitated global criminal networks. His book should be widely read and his recommendations taken very seriously." — Baroness Vivien Stern, King's College London
"I approached this book with a certain weariness. Having worked on the subject of sex trafficking for many years, I was unenthusiastic about yet another exposé or cri de coeur from a business executive turned human rights advocate. I could not have been more wrong. This is a unique and inspiring book—an honest, lucid, and immensely intelligent account of a devastating yet pervasive aspect of contemporary globalization. It deserves to be widely read by anyone who wants to understand one of the most persistent and complex human rights violations of our times." — Jacqueline Bhabha, Harvard Law School