Human Traffic: Sex, Slaves & Immigration

by Craig McGill

"People smuggling is now more lucrative than drug smuggling. Human Traffic examines this phenomenon and takes a global overview of this criminal activity. There are more than five million illegal aliens residing in the USA. How did they get here? And who helped them? Human Traffic investigates these questions. It contains interviews from the individuals and criminal gangs that mastermind the unlawful movement of people across international borders. Investigative journalist Craig McGill also examines the people who are willing to risk their life savings, and sometimes even their lives, in order to escape poverty by moving to the West."

Genres: True Crime

224 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 2003

Reviews

[Eric · Rating 1 out of 5]

Picked this up in NYC with Collin, I'm interested in issues of migration and slavery. The strength of the book was the voices of the immigrants, the smugglers and the state officials, which the author allowed to come out unfiltered. The great weakness of the book was the writing style and the simplistic level of analysis. If this were turned into me by a student, I'd give it a low C in both areas. These are important current issues which require much deeper reflection than this writer seemed capable of providing.

[Jim · Rating 4 out of 5]

Slavery wasn't stopped when the Union beat the Confederates in the American Civil war. Slavery and the trafficking of humans continues, today. Tragically, sometimes it takes a tragedy to make us aware of some of the problems like the drowned Chinese cockle fishers in Morecambe Bay.This book chapter by chapter looks at different kinds of people trafficked against their will to act as slaves in the "civilized" world. The UN and UNICEF are committed to ending trafficking, read this and I'm sure you will be too.

[Maggie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read this book as a reference to my novel a Vampire in My Farmtown Utopia. It was very informative.

[Brooke · Rating 5 out of 5]

I got this book from a famous library library in my city it educated me on different point of views and made the reality more surreal reading about personal experiences I think often now how this is a problem that will most likely never be solved knowing many people in power help keep this cycle going but I can be glad that I’m aware and acknowledge the injustice when given the chance