Traffick: The Illicit Movement of People and Things - Hardcover

Bhattacharyya, Gargi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0745320481 ISBN 13: 9780745320489

Publisher: Pluto Press, 2005

Synopsis

This book explores the underbelly of globalisation -- the illicit networks of money, drugs, people and arms that make up a multi-billion dollar illegal economy. This is the dangerous world of trafficking, identified by developed countries as the major threat to international order. In their eyes, it brings unwanted and undocumented people into the hidden crevices of affluent societies; guns and drugs are exchanged for access to the global market through the backdoor. As a result, trafficking is scrutinised, vilified, outlawed, even as free trade is celebrated.Gargi Bhattacharyya argues that trafficking is the unacknowledged underside of globalisation. The official economy relies on this illegal economy. Without it, globalisation cannot access cheap labour, it cannot reach vulnerable new markets, and it cannot finance expansion into the places most ravaged by human suffering. Traffick has become the secret basis of global expansion.The book examines the workings of the illegal economy, breaking it down into four main sections: organised crime, drugs, arms and people-trafficking. Exploring how we got here, and what the future holds, the issues it raises should interest a broad range of students across the social sciences.

About this title

About the Author:

Gargi Bhattacharyya is lecturer in Cultural Politics and Religion at the University of Birmingham.She is the author of Race and Power: Global Racisms in the Twenty -first Century with John Gabriel and Stephen Small (Routledge, 2001) Sex and Society (Routledge, 2002), and Tales of Dark-Skinned Women (UCL, 1998).

Review:

I have no hesitation in saying it promises to be an excellent and much needed book and recommend[...] that you accept it. I would certainly use it as recommended reading on my undergraduate course on human rights and globalization -- Professor O'Connell Davidson, Nottingham University

About this edition

• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0745320481
• ISBN 13: 9780745320489
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232