ABSTRACT
The chapters of this book demonstrate how the mainstream trafficking framework is unrepresentative of the various dimensions of human trafficking. What results is the promotion of scientifically unfounded causes of the practice. This is exacerbated by the fact that trafficking means different things to different people, including different actors directly involved in anti-trafficking interventions on the ground. For some, trafficking involves the kidnapping and selling of girls. For others, trafficking involves the deception of a woman who is convinced into accepting a fraudulent offer of work abroad, or lower pay or less freedom of movement than previously negotiated. Finally, others see trafficking as the exploitation of women and men who prove to be unlucky when undertaking a migratory adventure abroad in pursuit of money and social betterment.
