Chapter 1: Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: A critical review; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras -- Chapter 2: “Call for purge on the people traffickers”: An investigation into British newspapers’ representation of transnational human trafficking, 2000-2016; Christiana Gregoriou and Ilse A. Ras -- 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; Nina Muždeka -- Chapter 4: “In the suitcase was a boy”: Representing transnational child trafficking in contemporary crime fiction; Charlotte Beyer -- 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; Melissa Dearey -- Conclusion; Ilse A. Ras.

Open Access

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.