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Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-Day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2018), xi, 153 pp.

ISBN 978-3-319-78214-0 (ebook); 978-3-319-78213-3 (print)

CC BY

"This open access edited collection examines representations of human trafficking in media ranging from British and Serbian newspapers, British and Scandinavian crime novels, and a documentary series, and questions the extent to which these portrayals reflect the realities of trafficking. It tackles the problematic tendency to under-report particular types of victim and forms of trafficking, and seeks to explore both dominant and marginalised points of view. The authors take a cross-disciplinary approach, utilising analytical tools from across the humanities and social sciences, including linguistics, literary and media studies, and cultural criminology. It will appeal to students, academics and policy-makers with an interest in human trafficking and its depiction in the modern day." (Publisher description)
1 Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review / Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras, 1
2 "Call for purge on the people traffickers": An investigation into British newspapers' representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016 / Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras, 25
3 Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts. Narratological and Media Studies Approaches / Nina Muzdeka, 61
4 "In the suitcase was a boy": Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction / Charlotte Beyer, 89
5 Who are the Traffickers? A cultural criminological analysis of traffickers as represented in the Al Jazeera documentary series 'Modern Slavery: A Twenty-First Century Evil' / Melissa Dearey, 117
Conclusion / Ilse A. Ras, 143