Modern Slavery: A Global Perspective

Siddharth Kara

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Modern Slavery

A Global Perspective

Siddharth Kara

https://doi.org/10.7312/kara15846

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About this book

Siddharth Kara demonstrates the scope of modern slavery and its role in global supply chains to offer a concrete path toward its abolition. This searing exposé—including revelatory interviews with both the enslaved and their oppressors—documents one of humanity’s greatest wrongs and lays out the framework to eradicate it.

Author / Editor information

Siddharth Kara is a senior fellow and lecturer at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, a senior fellow at the Harvard School of Public Health, and a lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery (2008) and Bonded Labor: Tackling the System of Slavery in South Asia (2012), both from Columbia University Press.

Reviews

Jennifer Bryson Clark, coeditor of A Global Handbook on Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery:
This book provides an overview of the different forms of modern-day slavery, as well as a framework for the eradication of the phenomenon. Siddharth Kara uses case studies to exemplify the cultural norms that perpetuate trafficking and provides an extensive analysis of data through a unique business-model approach. Using a combination of rigorous analysis and anecdotal stories, Kara delves into subfields in modern-day slavery that have rarely been covered.

Jean Baderschneider, CEO, Global Fund to End Modern Slavery:
As we bring big data, analytics, and technology to the fight to end modern slavery, Siddharth Kara is here to hold us all to account on the realities, misery, and savagery of slavery. No one else can serve this powerful and important role. While many in this fight are sympathetic to the suffering, Kara not only brings true expertise, he brings true empathy. Read this book to immerse yourself in both.

Urmila Bhoola, United Nations Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery:
Insightful, awe-inspiring, and hopeful. This book demonstrates the depraved depths to which humanity has sunk in its efforts to extract profit through the exploitation of human beings and highlights the factors that prevent us from making progress with eliminating these practices. Siddharth Kara writes with great love and compassion for survivors of slavery, human and organ trafficking, and forced labor, and his personal stories and insightful analyses force us to renew our commitment to creating a world free of slavery in which human dignity and human rights can triumph once again. A must-read for all those concerned about human rights and labor exploitation.

Luis CdeBaca, former U.S. Ambassador-at-Large to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons:
Kara not only harnesses data and economic analysis to expose the ongoing shame of modern slavery, but reveals its underlying humanity—the cruelty of traffickers, the dignity of survivors, and the complicity of consumers. With both academic rigor and passion, Kara challenges us all to confront this global scourge.

Swanee Hunt, former U.S. Ambassador to Austria:
Expert. Investment banker. Consultant. Harvard instructor. Researcher. Activist. Screenplay writer. Poet. The author of Modern Slavery delivers horrific news and testimonies with phrases here and there so beautiful that the reader is lifted out of desperation enough to turn the next page. For all my association with the world of slavery, I’ve never known anyone remotely like Siddharth Kara. He grounds the reader through statistics and definitions before launching into scenes more true than any statistic or definition could ever be. No reader, however carefully clad in hyper-rationality, will emerge unchallenged and unchanged.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
1. Modern Slavery: An Overview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Sex Trafficking: The Case of Nigeria Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	48
3. Labor Trafficking: Slavery at Your Dining Table Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4. Organ Trafficking: Sold for Parts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
5. Technology and Human Trafficking: Friend and Foe Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6. Debt Bondage: Beyond South Asia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	177
7. Global Supply Chains: Blood and the Sea Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	223
8. A Framework to Eradicate Slavery Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
Appendix A: Global Slavery Metrics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Appendix B: Select Slavery Economics Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Appendix C: Sample Research Questionnaire Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	299
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Works Cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	327

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;General/trade;

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Published: July 9, 2018
ISBN: 9780231528023