Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking
Subtitle: Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction
Contributors: Gregoriou, Christiana
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Cham
Number of pages: 153
ISBN-13: 9783319782140
Subjects: Linguistics; Literary studies: general; Crime & criminology; Discourse analysis; Media studies; Cultural studies
Description: 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.
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