Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction

• Other Authors: Gregoriou, Christiana (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cham Springer Nature 2018
• Subjects: linguistics; Discourse analysis; Literary studies: general; Cultural studies; Media studies; Crime & criminology; Linguistics; Transnational crime; Philology; Corpora (Linguistics); Communication
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

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.