Human trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon_conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked annually at two million. In this first in-depth study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, scholars from the European, Siberian, and far-eastern parts of Russia offer groundbreaking analyses of the motivations behind and reactions to this horrifying trend.

Human Trafficking is a growing transnational criminal phenomenon and conservative estimates put the total number of persons trafficked globally at two million per year. In Human Traffic and Transnational Crime criminologists, sociologists, and demographers from European, Siberian, and far eastern parts of Russia create first in-depth, scholarly study of human trafficking in Russia and Ukraine, and seek to define the motivations, perceptions, and reactions to this growing trend."