Previous articleNext article No AccessWhat Is Human Trafficking? A Review EssayRhacel Salazar Parreñas, Maria Cecilia Hwang, and Heather Ruth LeeRhacel Salazar ParreñasDepartment of SociologyUniversity of Southern California (Parreñas) Search for more articles by this author , Maria Cecilia HwangDepartment of American StudiesBrown University (Hwang) Search for more articles by this author , and Heather Ruth LeeDepartment of American StudiesBrown University (Lee) Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Signs Volume 37, Number 4Summer 2012Sex: A Thematic Issue Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/664472 Views: 2935Total views on this site Citations: 14Citations are reported from Crossref © 2012 by The University of Chicago. All rights reserved.PDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Carol Chan, Natalie Gomez Challenges to addressing trafficking into forced labor in Chile: a legal culture perspective, Crime, Law and Social Change 79, no.44 (Oct 2022): 395–416.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-022-10059-6Debra A. Love, Annie I. Fukushima, Tiana N. Rogers, Ethan Petersen, Ellen Brooks, Charles R. Rogers Challenges to Reintegration: A Qualitative Intrinsic Case-Study of Convicted Female Sex Traffickers, Feminist Criminology 18, no.11 (Oct 2021): 24–44.https://doi.org/10.1177/15570851211045042Kate Perry, Courtney Burns Remembering the “Human” in Human Trafficking: An Analysis of Female Leadership and Anti-Trafficking Policy Choices, International Studies Perspectives 31 (Oct 2022).https://doi.org/10.1093/isp/ekac014One Pusumane, Ivy M. Fofie Bodies, Illicit Mobilities, and Citizenry, (Mar 2022): 168–185.https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-8771-3.ch010Erinn C. Cameron, Samantha L. Hemingway, Sherri L. Tschida, Rupinder Kaur Heer, Kristine M. Jacquin Gender Inequality in National Laws Predicts Estimated Prevalence of Modern Slavery Victims across Countries, Journal of Human Trafficking 7 (Jun 2021): 1–17.https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2021.1938896Nicksoni Filbert Kahimba International Legal Regime, (Mar 2021): 89–180.https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6265-435-8_3Dilara Yarbrough “Nothing About Us Without Us”: Reading Protests against Oppressive Knowledge Production as Guidelines for Solidarity Research, Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 49, no.11 (Jun 2019): 58–85.https://doi.org/10.1177/0891241619857134Christine B. Costa, Kathleen T. McCoy, Gayle J. Early, Cathleen M. Deckers Evidence-based Care of the Human Trafficking Patient, Nursing Clinics of North America 54, no.44 (Dec 2019): 569–584.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnur.2019.08.007Rebecca Walker, Treasa Galvin Labels, victims, and insecurity: an exploration of the lived realities of migrant women who sell sex in South Africa, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal 3, no.22 (May 2018): 277–292.https://doi.org/10.1080/23802014.2018.1477526Tobias Schulze-Cleven, Gary Herrigel, Nelson Lichtenstein, Gay Seidman Beyond disciplinary boundaries: Leveraging complementary perspectives on global labour, Journal of Industrial Relations 59, no.44 (Jul 2017): 510–537.https://doi.org/10.1177/0022185617713042Kamala Kempadoo, Revitalizando o imperialismo: campanhas contemporâneas contra o tráfico sexual e escravidão moderna, Cadernos Pagu , no.4747 (Jan 2016).https://doi.org/10.1590/18094449201600470008Ruth Goldstein Semiophors and sexual systems, Pragmatics and Society 6, no.22 (Jul 2015): 217–239.https://doi.org/10.1075/ps.6.2.04golKamala Kempadoo The Modern-Day White (Wo)Man’s Burden: Trends in Anti-Trafficking and Anti-Slavery Campaigns, Journal of Human Trafficking 1, no.11 (Apr 2015): 8–20.https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2015.1006120Ruth Goldstein Consent and Its Discontents: On the Traffic in Words and Women, Latin American Policy 5, no.22 (Nov 2014): 236–250.https://doi.org/10.1111/lamp.12045