Product Description

A controversial investigation into the shady world of people smuggling, which examines the scope of this illegal trade around the world. Trafficking. Once the word suggested drugs but in the 21st century organised crime has found an even more lucrative market to traffic in - people. Desperate migrants risk their lives and their life savings to be smuggled to the West. But once they arrive, their troubles have often only just begun. The criminals who have transported them may hold them hostage, in the hope of extorting even more money from their helpless relatives back home. Because they are illegal they may be forced to work for a pittance in harsh conditions. For many, their dream of a new, better life soon crumbles into a reality of prostitution and exploitation. Many become nothing more than modern-day slaves. Who are the players in this international market in human flesh? How did they rise to power? And what are governments doing to stop them?

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #253281 in Books
• Published on: 2003-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

About the Author
Craig McGill is an investigative journalist and author. He lives in Glasgow. His books Football Inc. and Do No Harm are published by Vision Paperbacks.

Customer Reviews

TRAFFIC
The author Craig McGill, in his own painstaking and illuminating way, has produced a work that is both highly interesting and at the same time shocking.

The criminal gangs, who profit at the expense of those who are quite often making their last desperate attempt to achieve a life free of poverty and threat, are rightfully exposed.

This is human suffering on a global scale that has, up until now, and for the most part, gone unreported.

McGill has firmly grasped the nettle and revealed an international underworld that few of us could even imagine existed.

If you must buy one book this summer then get this one - yopu won't be disappointed.

what price is a human.
This is a very good book giving the insight as to how people from the third world are exploited by money greedy people. This form of smuggling does not carry as high a prison sentense as drugs does. Some of these people lose their money, get caught and sent back or even die on the journey. Terrible human abuse.

Misleading title
Only one chapter in this book is about Human Trafficking.

The book is about illegal immigration, and not human trafficking. If you are after a book about Trafficking there are a lot of much better more thoroughly researched books available.