Trafficking chains : modern slavery in society / Sylvia Walby and Karen A. Shire

Front Cover -- Trafficking Chains: Modern Slavery in Society -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction -- What is trafficking/modern slavery? -- Emerging multi-disciplinary field -- Root causes -- Agency or systems? -- Not the dustbin of history: varieties of modernity -- Institutional domains: economy, violence, polity, civil society -- Capital, coloniality, and gender regimes -- Law -- Data -- Policy -- Sexual exploitation -- Approach of this book -- 2 Theory -- Introduction

Trafficking/modern slavery as a single field -- Third-party profit-taking from multi-sided trafficking/modern slavery transactions -- Trafficking chains -- Institutional domains, including violence/coercion -- Regimes of inequality -- Capitalism -- Coloniality -- Gender regimes -- Globalization: space and the social -- Varieties of modernity -- Conclusion -- 3 Law -- Introduction -- The development of trafficking/modern slavery as a single field -- The legal instruments -- Slavery -- Forced labour -- Practices similar to slavery -- Forced marriage -- The Rome Statute

The 2000 UN Protocol on trafficking in human beings -- Implications -- Multiple legal areas -- The Palermo Protocol -- Interpreting the law in context: what are 'exploitation' and 'vulnerability'? -- Exploitation -- From traffickers to trafficking chains -- What is vulnerability? -- Global, national, and regional law -- Conclusion -- 4 Data -- Introduction -- Indicators, data, and epistemic indicators -- UN Sustainable Development Goals -- Registered victims -- Registered traffickers and trafficking cases -- Population estimates of victims of modern slavery -- Policy development

Correlations and causes -- Cost of trafficking/modern slavery for society -- Conclusion -- 5 Policy -- Introduction -- Policy actors -- UN and its agencies -- Regional -- Policy actors in context -- Economic development -- Strategies for development -- Finance -- Industrial policy -- Regulating supply chains -- Regulating labour -- Welfare and social protection -- Security -- International agencies for security -- Criminal justice systems -- Human rights -- Human rights machinery -- Specialized services -- Gender equality -- Conclusion -- 6 Sexual Exploitation -- Introduction

Studies, terms, and concepts -- Regulations -- Regulating the sex trade in the US, Great Britain, Sweden, and Germany -- German practices and developments -- Regulating prostitution in the City of Dortmund -- The 2011 EU Anti-Trafficking Directive and the 2016 reform of German prostitution -- Situating German developments -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Introduction -- What is it? -- Root causes -- Regimes of inequality -- Institutional domains -- Varieties of modernity -- Systems and society -- Law -- Data -- Policy -- Sexual exploitation -- Disciplines and a new interdisciplinary field

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND license. This book offers a theory of trafficking and modern slavery with implications for policy. Despite economic development, modern slavery persists all around the world. The issue is not only one of crime but the regulation of the economy, better welfare, and social protections. Going beyond polarized debates on the sex trade, an original empirical analysis shows the importance of profit-taking. Although individual experience matters, the root causes lie in intersecting regimes of inequality of gender regimes, capitalism, and the legacies of colonialism. This book shows the importance of coercion and the societal complexities that perpetuate modern slavery