Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xi Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A Critical Review (Christiana Gregoriou, Ilse A. Ras)....Pages 1-24 ‘Call for Purge on the People Traffickers’: An Investigation into British Newspapers’ Representation of Transnational Human Trafficking, 2000–2016 (Christiana Gregoriou, Ilse A. Ras)....Pages 25-59 Not All Human Trafficking is Created Equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts—Narratological and Media Studies Approaches (Nina Muždeka)....Pages 61-87 “In the Suitcase was a Boy”: Representing Transnational Child Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction (Charlotte Beyer)....Pages 89-115 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)....Pages 117-142 Back Matter ....Pages 143-153