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GS 4000 / PS 4150: Human Trafficking: Books

Reference Texts

Human Trafficking: A Comprehensive Exploration Into Modern Day Slavery by Stickle (2019)
Call Number: ebook
Human Trafficking: A Global Perspective by Shelley (2010)
Call Number: Print and ebook
Geography of Trafficking: From Drug Smuggling to Modern-Day Slavery by Shelley (2017)
Call Number: ebook

Books on Human Trafficking

This link will take you to JEWL Searc h and displays a list of books and ebooks about human trafficking. Browse or narrow the results by adding additional keywords to the search box that appears at the top of the screen.

In Our Backyard: Human Trafficking in America and What We Can Do to Stop It by Belles (2015)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Human Trafficking Around the World: Hidden in Plain Sight by Hepburn (2013)
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective by Kara (2017)
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Human Trafficking: Trade for Sex, Labor, and Organs by Purkayastha (2019)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Slavery and Human Trafficking by Berlatsky (2016)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Human Trafficking by Page and Piatt (2016)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Global Human Trafficking: Critical Issues and Contexts by Dragiewicz (2014)
Call Number: ebook
Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders' Perspective by Mishra (2013)
Call Number: Ebook
Combating Human Trafficking: Gaps in Policy and Law by Mishra (2015)
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Slavery in International Law: Of Human Exploitation and Trafficking by Allain (2012)
Call Number: ebook
Modern Slavery: A Documentary and Reference Guide by Lederer (2018)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do by Choi-Fitzpatrick (2017)
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Examines the systematic oppression of men, women, and children in rural India.

Sex Trafficking and Commercial Sexual Exploitation: Prevention, Advocacy, and Trauma-Informed Practice by Gerassi (2017)
Call Number: ebook
Sex Trafficking and Human Rights: The Status of Women and State Responses by Smith-Cannon (2022)
Call Number: Ebook
Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery by Kara (2017)
Call Number: ebook
Sex Trafficking in the United States: Theory, Research, Policy, and Practice by Nichols (2016)
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Sex Trafficking Prevention: a Trauma-Informed Approach for Parents and Professionals by Sanders (2015)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
The Perfect Business? Anti-trafficking and the Sex Trade Along the Mekong
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
The Politics of Sex Trafficking: A Moral Geography
Call Number: Print book and ebook available
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty and Debt by Jacobsen (2017)
Call Number: ebook

Unseen Lives: The Hidden World of Modern Slavery by Garbers (2022)
Call Number: Ebook
Modern Slavery: a Reference Handbook by Villegas (2020)
Call Number: Ebook
Fighting Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking by LeBaron (2021)
Call Number: Ebook
The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today by Bales (2010)
Call Number: Ebook and Print Versions
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy by Bales (2012)
Call Number: Ebook and Print Versions
Forced Labor: Coercion and Exploitation in the Private Economy by Andrees (2009)
Call Number: Ebook
Slave States: The Practice of Kafala in the Gulf Arab Region by Kakande (2015)
Call Number: Ebook
A stark expose of the enslavement, trafficking, sexual starvation and general abuse of workers in the Gulf Arab Region.
Profits of Poverty: The Economics of Forced Labour by International Labour Office (2014)
Call Number: Ebook
Blood and Earth: Modern Slavery, Ecocide, and the Secret to Saving the World by Bales (2016)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Survivors of Slavery: Modern-Day Slave Narratives by Murphy (2014)
Call Number: Ebook and Print Versions
Caught at Sea: Forced Labour and Trafficking in Fisheries
Call Number: Ebook
Sold People: Traffickers and Family Life in North China by Ransmeier (2017)
Call Number: Ebook

Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States: Reimagining Survivors by Gozdziak (2016)
Call Number: Print Version and Ebook
Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking by Mapp (2016)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Orphanage Trafficking in International Law by van Doore (2021)
Call Number: Ebook
Confronting Commercial Sexual Exploitation and Sex Trafficking of Minors in the United States
Call Number: Ebook series
Child Soldiers by Mancini (2010)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Innocents Lost: When Child Soldiers Go To War by Briggs (2005)
Call Number: Print book--click for location

The Red Market: On the Trail of the World's Organ Brokers, Bone Thieves, Blood Farmers, and Child Traffickers by Carney (2011)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Is Selling Body Parts Ethical? by Watkins (2012)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law and Ethics by Cohen (2014)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Human Trafficking: Trade for Sex, Labor, and Organs by Purkayastha (2019)
Call Number: Print book--click for location

The Dalits (multiple books on the topic)
This link will take you to a list of books and ebooks focusing on social conditions and discrimination experienced by the Dalit caste which contribute to trafficking vulnerability.
Human Trafficking in Thailand: Current Issues, Trends, and the Role of the Thai Government by Sorajjakool (2013)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Focuses on the areas of fishing, agriculture, domestic work, sex work, and the trafficking of children, weaving individual narratives and official studies into the wider history of Thailand's changing economy and labor situation.
What Slaveholders Think: How Contemporary Perpetrators Rationalize What They Do by Choi-Fitzpatrick (2017)
Call Number: Ebook and Print versions -- 2nd Floor -- 306.3 C4521w
Focus is INDIA -- "Through frank and unprecedented conversations with slaveholders, Choi-Fitzpatrick reveals the condescending and paternalistic thought processes that blind them."
Human Trafficking: The Stakeholders' Perspective by Mishra (2013)
Call Number: Ebook
Primary focus is INDIA. Attempts to discuss various issues of human trafficking, including perspectives of various stakeholders. All the essays are original works organised into themes such as sexual exploitation, child trafficking, trafficking outside India, legal aspects, state experiences and case studies.
Human Trafficking in Asia: Forcing Issues by Yea and Kitiarsa (2014)
Call Number: Print book--click for location
Analyses the complex issues surrounding internal and cross-border human trafficking in Asia.
Sharing Our Stories of Survival: Native Women Surviving Violence by Deer (2008)
Call Number: Ebook and Print versions
Human & Sex Trafficking: Trends and Responses Across [American] Indian Country by NCAI Policy Research Center (2016)
Sex Trafficking in Southeast Asia: A History of Desire, Duty, and Debt by Jacobsen (2016)