The Construction and Implementation of International Human Trafficking Law
Journal: eScholarship (California Digital Library)
Year: 2020

Human trafficking recently shifted from being considered a marginal problem to an urgent one. As recent as twenty years ago, however, laws criminalizing trafficking were few and public perception mostly understood slavery as an issue of the past. Why do issues enter the global arena and receive worldwide attention when they do? Why is there suddenly so much urgency and activity around a problem that has, in fact, existed throughout history? Social scientists increasingly devote attention to how