Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
by Siddharth Kara

Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
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Author: Siddharth Kara
Edition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-10-24
ISBN: 0231139608
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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  • ISBN13: 9780231139601
  • Condition: NEW
  • Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Book Review: Sex Trafficking: Inside The Business of Modern Slavery
Summary: 5 Stars

Author Siddharth Kara's analytical approach to the underlying economic and political issues driving the business of modern slavery is unprecedented. He not only reveals the incredibly dark and immoral side of this industry through very personal interviews with victims, but also comprehensively outlines a strategy for eradicating modern slavery. His approach skillfully addresses the global economic trends in addition to local country by country dynamics that have led to the growth of human sex trafficking.

I have yet to read or encounter any work that compares to Mr. Kara's depiction of this serious issue. The book not only strikes an emotional chord, but also provides a succinct quantifiable analysis of why this exploitation occurs in our world today and what must be done to eliminate it. "Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery" is unquestionably a groundbreaking approach to this subject and I highly encourage others to read this book. We all must develop individual efforts to bring about change and Mr. Kara's work is certainly a call to action that cannot be ignored.

Summary of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery

Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed."

Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, in the first journey of its kind, he traveled across four continents to investigate these crimes and take stock of their devastating human toll. Kara made several trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed over four hundred slaves, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them.

In this book, Kara provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking. Kara describes the local factors and global economic forces that gave rise to this and other forms of modern slavery over the past two decades and quantifies, for the first time, the size, growth, and profitability of each industry. Finally, he identifies the sectors of the sex trafficking industry that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and recommends the specific legal, tactical, and policy measures that would target these vulnerable sectors and help to abolish this form of slavery, once and for all.

The author will donate a portion of the proceeds of this book to the anti-slavery organization, Free the Slaves.

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