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Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking : Present-Day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gregoriou, Christiana.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing AG, 2018.
Edition:1st ed.
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Editor's Preface, Acknowledgments and Recommendations
  • Contents
  • Notes on Contributors
  • List of Tables
  • Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A Critical Review
  • Introduction
  • The Story and Truth(s) of Human Trafficking
  • Simplification
  • Types of Trafficking
  • Victims and Traffickers
  • Causes of Trafficking
  • Framing
  • Effects of Misrepresentation on the Directly Affected
  • The Victim Hierarchy
  • Criminalisation
  • Secondary Victimisation
  • Socio-Political Causes and Effects of Misrepresentation
  • The Focus on Female Victims and Sex Trafficking
  • The Lack of Focus on Labour Trafficking and Domestic Trafficking
  • Global and Local Politics (as Cause and Effect)
  • Secondary Exploitation
  • Conclusion
  • In this Collection
  • References
  • Chapter 2: 'Call for Purge on the People Traffickers': An Investigation into British Newspapers' Representation of Transnational Human Trafficking, 2000-2016
  • Introduction
  • Data Collection
  • The Corpus
  • Diachronic Change and Spike Sample Corpus Construction
  • Corpus-Assisted Critical Discourse Analysis
  • Results
  • Metaphors
  • Naming and Describing HT
  • Trafficking and Smuggling
  • Description of Victims/Survivors
  • Description of Traffickers and Related HT-Perpetrators
  • Agency and Focus
  • Modality
  • Speech and Writing Presentation
  • Multimodality
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 3: Not All Human Trafficking is Created Equal: Transnational Human Trafficking in the UK and Serbian News Media Texts-Narratological and Media Studies Approaches
  • Introduction
  • Fabula: What to Choose for the News?
  • Arrests and Reports on Criminal Acts
  • Court Proceedings
  • Official Reports on HT
  • Planned Responses to HT
  • HT-Related Public Events
  • Personal Experience/Victim Targeting and Victim Profiling.
  • Story: Framing and Manipulating the Fabula
  • Newsworthiness, or How to Make a Story Publishable
  • Oddity/Exceptional Quality
  • Proximity
  • Timeliness
  • Prominence
  • Consonance
  • Number/Consequence/Impact
  • Negativity
  • Human Interest
  • Focalization, Characters and Stereotypes
  • Archetypes and Angles
  • A Criminal Act/Act of Organized Crime Story
  • A Lucrative Business
  • Sensational News
  • Text and Narration
  • Text Structure
  • Levels of Narration
  • Genre
  • Ideological Positioning
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Chapter 4: "In the Suitcase was a Boy": Representing Transnational Child Trafficking in Contemporary Crime Fiction
  • Introduction: Exploring Representations of Child Trafficking
  • Methodology and Context
  • Child Sex Trafficking
  • Harraga and Domestic Noir
  • Organ Trafficking
  • Child Soldiers and Victims
  • Conclusion: The Politics of Representing TCT in Crime Fiction
  • References
  • Chapter 5: Who are the Traffickers? A Cultural Criminological Analysis of Traffickers as Represented in the Al Jazeera Documentary Series Modern Slavery: A Twenty-first Century Evil
  • Introduction
  • Methodology
  • Previous Research
  • Stigma and Deviance in S21
  • Representations of 'Traffickers' in S21 Narratives of HT
  • Coda
  • Conclusion
  • References
  • Conclusion
  • Reference
  • Index.

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