192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
192 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current international and state-based approaches to trafficking, which tend to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, this book seeks to establish how marriage as an institution is often... Read more
Introduction 1 The exclusion of marriage from international conceptions of trafficking 2 Connecting marriage and the traffic in women 3 More than the sum of its parts: theorising marriage trafficking as sexual, domestic and reproductive exploitation 4 Prostitution ‘plus’: trafficking women through the online mail-order bride (MOB) industry 5 Familiar trafficking? Forced marriage in the UK 6 Trafficking in the name of God? Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy Conclusion
Biography
Dr Kaye Quek is a Lecturer in Global Studies at RMIT University, Australia.
