Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking : Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction
Discourse analysis Transnational crime Philology Linguistics Corpora (Linguistics) Cultural studies Communication Trafficking Language and Literature Corpus Linguistics Media and Communication
Imprint: Palgrave Pivot
2018
1st ed. 2018.
EISBN 3319782142
Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.
Chapter 2: âCall for purge on the people traffickersâ: An investigation into British newspapersâ representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.
Chapter 3: Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts â Narratological and Media Studies Approaches; Nina Muždeka.
Chapter 4: âIn the suitcase was a boyâ: Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer.
Chapter 5: 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.
Conclusion; Ilse A. Ras.
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.
Chapter 2: âCall for purge on the people traffickersâ: An investigation into British newspapersâ representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras.
Chapter 3: Not all human trafficking is created equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts â Narratological and Media Studies Approaches; Nina Muždeka.
Chapter 4: âIn the suitcase was a boyâ: Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer.
Chapter 5: 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.
Conclusion; Ilse A. Ras.
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.
