Selling Olga: Stories of Human Trafficking and Resistance - Softcover

Waugh, Louisa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0753822067 ISBN 13: 9780753822067

Publisher: Phoenix, 2008

Synopsis

It’s seems inconceivable in the 21st century, but human trafficking is now the world’s fastest-growing illegal industry: according to U.S. government estimates, between 700,000 and two million people have become victims. Following three years of in-depth research, award-winning author and journalist Louisa Waugh has produced a vivid, unflinching account of how this immoral commerce operates and why it thrives. Throughout Eastern Europe, a combination of war and poverty has led to women being sold in bars, confined, and coerced into sex work. And while Waugh focuses especially on one woman, Olga, who tells her own story in angry, heartbreaking detail, she also introduces us to many others across Europe including Nigerian women in Italy and migrants trapped in other forms of forced labor. She helps us understand why, in spite of global awareness, relentless anti-trafficking campaigns, and increasing numbers of imprisonments, this type of crime hasn’t disappeared and why, in spite of everything, there is hope for change.

About this title

About the Author:

Louisa Waugh grew up in Liverpool and spent several years working with homeless young people, before moving to Mongolia where she wrote for the Guardian and Independent and was a regular BBC World Service contributor. SELLING OLGA is her second book, following the award-winning HEARING BIRDS FLY.

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0753822067
• ISBN 13: 9780753822067
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 262