The Political Economy of New Slavery (Palgrave Texts in International Political Economy)

this Book Examines The Role Of Globalization And Local Factors In The Increase Of Contemporary Slavery And Possible Ways Forward In Legislation, Policy-making, Ngo Campaigns And Research. Specific Proposals For Improvement Of International And National Law As Well As Victim Support Measures Are Discussed And Perspectives On Economic Development And Social Change Are Evaluated For Their Use In Combating Slavery. Reparations For Slavery In The Past Are Analyzed As A Possible Aid In Raising Awareness And Increased Pressure On Government To Take Full Responsibility For Ending Slavery. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 6 List of Tables and Figures......Page 8 Foreword......Page 9 Acknowledgements......Page 11 Notes on the Contributors......Page 12 List of Abbreviations......Page 15 Introduction: Combating Contemporary Slavery......Page 18 Part I Causes and Perspectives......Page 30 1 Contemporary Slavery, Global Justice and Globalization......Page 32 2 Migration and Security: The Wrong End of the Stick?......Page 54 Part II Cases and Recommendations......Page 70 3 Trafficking and International Law......Page 72 4 The Belgian Counter-trafficking Policy......Page 92 5 Responses to Sexual Slavery: From the Balkans to Afghanistan......Page 108 6 Migrant Domestic Workers and Slavery......Page 124 7 Bonded Labour in South Asia: India, Nepal and Pakistan......Page 135 8 Child Labour in Latin America: Issues and Policies in Honduras......Page 154 9 Child Labour, Education and Child Rights Among Cocoa Producers in Ghana......Page 175 Part III Strategies and Frameworks for Change......Page 196 10 The Global Framework for Development: Instrumentality or Contested Ethical Space?......Page 198 11 Strategies for Change: The Tobin Tax......Page 218 12 Modern Slavery and Fair Trade Products: Buy One and Set Someone Free......Page 234 13 Slavery as Piracy: The Legal Case for Reparations for the Slave Trade......Page 252 Bibliography......Page 265 Index......Page 280 This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analyysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with specialist empirical chapters on specific forms of contemporary slavery such as trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It provides relevant policy recommendations, such as respect for victims' rights ans assesses longer term strategies for change, including Fair Trade, reparations for past slavery, the Tobin tax and Development ethics. The book aims to raise awareness about the complexity of contemporary slavery and it promotes looking at trafficking, bonded labour, child labour and abuse of domestic migrant workers under the heading of slavery, in order to empower campaigns to eradicate slavery once and for all. Even where international and national laws are in place, compliance is lacking and economic pressures leave poor people vulnerable to current forms of slavery This unique volume combines chapters containing a multidisciplinary academic analysis of the causes of the continued existence of contemporary forms of slavery, such as globalization, poverty and migration with empirical chapters on trafficking, domestic migrant workers, bonded labour and child labour in Asia, Latin America and Africa. It provides relevant policy recommendations, such as respect for victims' rights and assesses longer term strategies for change, including Fair Trade, reparations for slavery in the past, the Tobin tax and Development ethics.