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Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue.

Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue. Scholarship like that carried out in holds significant promise for human rights advocacy-where human rights law and activism come together. for bringing human rights back into the design of antitrafficking initiatives. Their message is that, even if it takes time, careful thinking, and persistence, the battle against modern slavery can be wo. -Human Rights and Human Welfare.

Yet as human rights scholars Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick argue, most current work tends to be more descriptive and focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation. Such reframing involves overcoming several of the most difficult barriers to the development of human rights discourse: women's rights as human rights, labor rights as a confluence of structure and agency, the interdependence of migration and discrimination, the ideological and policy hegemony of the United States in setting the terms of debate, and a politics of global justice and governance.

Reframing Contemporary Slavery. Rethinking trafficking as slavery means rethinking our cultural constructions. Gulati’s insightful study (this volume) of media depictions of trafficking in Britain, the United States, and Canada demonstrates empirically what has long been argued by advocates of a human rights approach to slavery. He shows that media reports: (1) tend to characterize the issue as mainly involving trafficking for sexual exploitation and (2) organized crime; (3) draw heavily on mainstream sources, ignoring alternative perspectives; and (4) tend mainly to consider more superficial and technical interventions.

Seeing the Myth in Human Rights.

Seeing the Myth in Human Rights.

From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery. The book is a recent addition to the outstanding Human Rights series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press

From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Trafficking in Persons is not a new phenomenon. The book is a recent addition to the outstanding Human Rights series published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. Reconstructing our understanding of trafficking from classical migration or organized crime perspective to a human rights-based approach will contribute to the design of appropriate policies. There is a need to move from prosecution to prevention and from criminalizing the victim to empowering him or her.

Series:Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights . University of pennsylvania press. Alison Brysk is Mellichamp Professor of Global Governance in the Global and International Studies Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick is Assistant Director of the Center for the Study of Social Movements and Social Change at the University of Notre Dame.

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Slavery Modern slavery Freedom Human rights Indecent work International law Migration Trafficking . In: Brysk A and Choi-Fitzpatrick A (eds) From human trafficking to human rights: Reframing contemporary slavery

Slavery Modern slavery Freedom Human rights Indecent work International law Migration Trafficking Prostitution Sex work. In: Brysk A and Choi-Fitzpatrick A (eds) From human trafficking to human rights: Reframing contemporary slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, pp. 73–85. Brysk A and Choi-Fitzpatrick A (eds) (2012a) From human trafficking to human rights: Reframing contemporary slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Brysk A and Choi-Fitzpatrick A (2012b) Introduction: Rethinking trafficking. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Trafficking of Women for Prostitution

From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery. Trafficking of Women for Prostitution. in Trafficking in Humans: Social, Cultural and Political Dimension, eds. S. Cameron and E. Newman, 89. New York: United Nations University Press, 2008. Cameron, Sally, and Edward Newman eds. Trafficking in Human$: Social, Cultural, and Political Dimensions. Misery and Myopia: Understanding the Failures of .

Trafficking to Human Rights : Reframing Contemporary Slavery Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans. by: Friman, H. Richard.

From Human Trafficking to Human Rights : Reframing Contemporary Slavery. In this volume a cast of experts demonstrates that it is time to recognize human trafficking as an issue of human rights and social justice, rooted in larger structural issues relating to the global economy, human security, . foreign policy, and labor and gender relations Human Trafficking, Human Security, and the Balkans. Trafficking Women’s Human Rights.