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Fighting modern slavery and human trafficking : history and contemporary policy / edited by Genevieve LeBaron, University of Sheffield, Jessica R. Pliley, Texas State University, San Marcos, David W. Blight, Yale University

LeBaron, Genevieve,i20./21. Jh. [Herausgeber] ; Blight, David W.,i1949- [Herausgeber] ; Pliley, Jessica R.,i1977- [Herausgeber]

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021

Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press

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Slaveries since emancipation

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Over the last two decades, fighting modern slavery and human trafficking has become a cause célèbre. Yet large numbers of researchers, non-governmental organizations, trade unions, workers, and others who would seem like natural allies in the fight against modern slavery and trafficking are hugely skeptical of these movements. They object to how the problems are framed, and are skeptical of the "new abolitionist" movement. Why? This book tackles key controversies surrounding the anti-slavery and anti-trafficking movements head on. Champions and skeptics explore the fissures and fault lines that surround efforts to fight modern slavery and human trafficking today. These include: whether efforts to fight modern slavery displace or crowd out support for labor and migrant rights; whether and to what extent efforts to fight modern slavery mask, naturalize, and distract from racial, gendered, and economic inequality; and whether contemporary anti-slavery and anti-trafficking crusaders' use of history are accurate and appropriate.