Human Trafficking as a New (In)Security Threat, 1st ed. 2021

Introduction

PART ONE: Understanding security and human trafficking in the 21st century

Chapter One: Human trafficking: Old phenomenon, new meaning(s)

Chapter Two: Human Trafficking as a Security Threat

PART TWO: Fear of the Other

Chapter Three: Closing US refugee resettlement with the stroke of a pen

Chapter Four: Fortress Europe

PART THREE:  Lived experiences of (in)security

Chapter Five: Drug mules, foot guides, or victims of child trafficking?

Conclusions: Way forward

Elżbieta M. Goździak is Visiting Professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. Previously, she was Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University. She held the George Soros Visiting Chair in Public Policy at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest.

Argues that a robust refugee resettlement is not a threat but an asset to the national security

Shows how human trafficking has replaced migration in public narratives, policy responses, and practice with refugees

Asks how security concerns stemming from human trafficking can be reconciled with the need to protect victims