The phenomenon of trafficking in women for sexual exploitation which in the last decade has changed from a marginal non issue to a legitimate concern in many parts of the world has become familiar through newspaper coverage and now finally legislators and law enforcement agencies have begun to act In Europe many EU Member States now have or are developing at least some sort of anti trafficking policies with some of them in the forefront of global anti trafficking efforts Moreover the EU itself has become markedly more active with regard to curbing trafficking in human beings as part of its migration control and police and judicial co operation functions However even co ordinated efforts such as those being worked on by the EU tend to produce only short term cures to a problem that is in truth global and structural in nature and which cannot be eradicated or necessarily even significantly reduced through policing and migration control measures alone Too often there is little debate on broader measures which might be targeted to address the root causes of trafficking such as poverty under development general lack of economic and migration opportunities and above all gender inequality Against this background this book deals with present efforts to control trafficking in women for sexual exploitation In doing so it examines claims that what is needed effectively to prevent and tackle trafficking is a comprehensive approach and at the very least one that is far more wide ranging and coherent than what exists today and also analyses the assertion that destination countries and more specifically Member States of the EU could and perhaps should take more action against trafficking through regional co operation particularly in the framework of the EU rather than as individual Member States The book will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in EU law human rights comparative law sociology feminist theory and politics as well as policy makers practitioners and NGO activists in various European countries

[(Legal Responses to Trafficking in Women for Sexual Exploitation in the European Union )] [Author: Heli Askola] [Mar-2007] PDF

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