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This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon
that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to
address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current
international and state-based approaches to trafficking, which tend
to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, this
book seeks to establish how marriage as an institution is often
implicated in the occurrence of trafficking in women. The book aims
firstly to establish why marriage has tended not to be included in
dominant conceptions of trafficking in persons and secondly to
determine whether certain types of marriage may constitute cases of
human trafficking, in and of themselves. Through the use of case
studies on forced marriage, mail-order bride (MOB) marriage and
Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, this book demonstrates that certain
kinds of marriage may in fact constitute situations of trafficking
in persons and together form the under-recognised phenomenon of
'marriage trafficking'. In addition, the book offers a new
perspective on the types of harm involved in trafficking in women
by developing a framework for identifying the particular abuses
characteristic to marriage trafficking. It argues that the traffic
in women for marriage cannot be understood merely as a subset of
sex trafficking or trafficking for forced labour, but rather
constitutes a distinctive form of trafficking in its own right.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates
working in the fields of human rights theory and institutions,
political science, international law, transnational crime,
trafficking in persons, and feminist political theory.
This book examines the traffic in women for marriage, a phenomenon
that has been largely overlooked in international efforts to
address the problem of human trafficking. In contrast to current
international and state-based approaches to trafficking, which tend
to focus on sex trafficking and trafficking for forced labour, this
book seeks to establish how marriage as an institution is often
implicated in the occurrence of trafficking in women. The book aims
firstly to establish why marriage has tended not to be included in
dominant conceptions of trafficking in persons and secondly to
determine whether certain types of marriage may constitute cases of
human trafficking, in and of themselves. Through the use of case
studies on forced marriage, mail-order bride (MOB) marriage and
Fundamentalist Mormon polygamy, this book demonstrates that certain
kinds of marriage may in fact constitute situations of trafficking
in persons and together form the under-recognised phenomenon of
'marriage trafficking'. In addition, the book offers a new
perspective on the types of harm involved in trafficking in women
by developing a framework for identifying the particular abuses
characteristic to marriage trafficking. It argues that the traffic
in women for marriage cannot be understood merely as a subset of
sex trafficking or trafficking for forced labour, but rather
constitutes a distinctive form of trafficking in its own right.
This book will be of great interest to scholars and postgraduates
working in the fields of human rights theory and institutions,
political science, international law, transnational crime,
trafficking in persons, and feminist political theory.
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