Stolen Lives: Trading Women Into Sex and Slavery / Edition 1

by Sietske Altink

Overview

“Dancers/Hostesses required for top cabaret nightclubs both here and overseas. No experience necessary. Mega bucks to be earned. Telephone. . . ”

Would you answer an ad like this? Thousands of women do and fall victim to the illegal trafficking in women by organized crime syndicates.

Driven by the desire to start a career or escape poverty, women migrate in search of work and a better life for themselves and for their families. For some, this search is the beginning of a nightmare experience. From “hotel receptionist” to nightclub “dancer” to “domestic worker,” Stolen Lives: Trading Women Into Sex and Slavery exposes how women are hired in their country of origin, transported, left without money, passports, or permits, and become trapped into prostitution or domestic slavery. Branded as illegal aliens and marooned in a culture they don’t understand, they have nowhere to go and no one to help them.

With personal testimony from women caught in the trafficking web, Stolen Lives reveals the violent inner workings of international crime networks, the routes and methods involved, and how trafficking gangs are able to circumvent the law.

The trade in women is one of the most shameful abuses of human rights, yet it continues to be ignored by national governments. Stolen Lives confronts the hidden scandal of global trafficking which exploits women as they attempt to emancipate themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781560238850
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/26/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Contents Preface

• The Characteristics of Traffic
• Traffic Old and New
• A Global Brothel in a Global Village
• Traffic and Prostitution in the Netherlands
• Thailand to Europe: A One-Way Ticket
• Colombian Gangs: They See Everything 
• Artificial Families
• The Greek Connection
• The Belgian Billionaire Gang
• “I Was Safer in Yugoslavia Than in Holland”
• The Red Mafia
• Mail-Order Marriage
• The Trade in Domestic Workers
• Nobody’s Business
• Bibliography