Product Description

The War on Human Trafficking covers the policy battles surrounding efforts to abolish human trafficking. Anthony M. DeStefano details events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 1000--the federal law that first addressed this phenomenon--and assesses the effectiveness and aftermath of the law. DeStefano also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration used trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq. This important book gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude and explains the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #118027 in Books
• Published on: 2008-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 208 pages

Review
"DeStefano's book provides new insights for experts and the general public on the ideological debates swirling around human trafficking, as well as a better way forward."
Ann Jordan, Global Rights

"This original and needed book details the controversial confluence of prostitution with the broader problem of trafficking in persons, and the resulting political fallout that has hampered efforts to combat one of the twenty-first century's more egregious forms of human slavery."
Jim Finckenauer, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

DeStefano's book provides new insights for experts and the general public on the ideological debates swirling around human trafficking, as well as a better way forward. --Ann Jordan, Global Rights

This original and needed book details the controversial confluence of prostitution with the broader problem of trafficking in persons, and the resulting political fallout that has hampered efforts to combat one of the twenty-first century's more egregious forms of human slavery. --Jim Finckenauer, Professor, School of Criminal Justice, Rutgers University

From the Inside Flap
DeStefano details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000, the federal law that first addressed the phenomenon of trafficking in persons. The book also describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use the trafficking laws to attack prostitution and shows how the American response to these criminal activities was impacted by the events of September 11th and the War in Iraq.

From the Back Cover
The War on Human Trafficking covers a decade of reporting on the policy battles that have surrounded efforts to abolish human trafficking practices, helping readers to understand the forced labor of immigrants as a major global human rights story. Anthony M. DeStefano gets beyond sensational stories of sexual servitude and explains the powerful economic conditions that impel immigrants to put themselves at risk.

Details the events leading up to the creation of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 and assesses its effectiveness.
Describes the tensions created as the Bush Administration tried to use trafficking laws to attack prostitution.
Shows how the American response to these criminal activities was influenced by the events of September 11th and the war in Iraq.

Customer Reviews

sober appraisal of U.S. policy
At last, a look at U.S. policy on human trafficking that goes beyond the political hysteria that surrounds the issue. This book brings out into the open the reality that we don't really known the dimensions of the trafficking problem, either in the U.S. or the world. This is because alot of the debate has been based on the same recycled, half-baked and dated information. The writer shows how simplistic thinking about trafficking drove U.S. policy and laws and how the issue has become a means for anti-prostitution forces to use the law to go after the oldest profession. The unfortunate aspect of that is it appears to ignore the problems women and men face because of lack of jobs and opportunities in their societies. Gives a good look at some of the worst labor and sex trafficking cases. It also has a comprehensive discussion of the diplomacy and political machinations which led to the U.S. trafficking law and the United Nations Protocol.

Comprehensive overview...
This book is the factual equivalent of Victor Malarek's, "The Natashas." In a forty page paper I am writing on trafficking, DeStefano's book is referenced more than any other (non-govermental)source. Balanced, comprehensive, and amazingly unbiased.