Overview
- Examines factual and fictional accounts of human trafficking published in several languages, in a range of countries and contexts
- Defines 'human trafficking' and provides a comprehensive review and critique of existing literature
- Highlights the impact of dominant narratives on the way in which trafficking and trafficking victims are categorised
- Published open access under a CC BY 4.0 license
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About this book
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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Keywords
- open access
- modern slavery
- newspapers
- social policy
- law enforcement
- border force
- human trafficking
- News Media
- crime fiction
- transnational organised crime
- victim hierarchy
- critical discourse analysis
- corpus linguistics
- narratology
- child trafficking
- cultural criminology
- true crime
- documentary film
- stylistics
- discourse analysis
- trafficking
Table of contents (5 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Christiana Gregoriou is an Associate Professor in English Language at Leeds University’s School of English, UK. She is a specialist in crime fiction stylistics, and employs critical linguistic analysis to the study of crime fiction but also other crime-related discourse (including media texts and the true crime genre).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking
Book Subtitle: Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction
Editors: Christiana Gregoriou
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78214-0
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78213-3Published: 18 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78214-0Published: 29 June 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 153
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Discourse Analysis, Trafficking, Language and Literature, Corpus Linguistics, Cultural Studies, Media and Communication