ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the interconnection between labour trafficking and exploitation, illegal markets and the regulation of mobility, within the context of processes associated with globalization. It describes the intersection of human trafficking and illegal markets that involve non-citizens and the application of the border regulation apparatus within the nation that seeks to target both victims of exploitation and illegal migrant workers. The intersection of labour trafficking, illicit markets and illegal labour is an example of what Wonders has labelled the ‘choreography’ of the dance that constitutes the border performance, shaped by state policies and laws, but also by larger global forces. The chapter provides an analysis that is situated within an emerging field of criminological inquiry that looks beyond the traditional focus on the criminal justice institutions of police, courts and prisons towards a criminology ‘informed and transformed by a critical, global perspective’.
