Every Body Counts - Maxzor's books

english language

Published by Bonnier Books.

ISBN:: 978-1-80418-647-3

(1 review)

Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals a secretive world where lives don't matter, but where every body counts.

From the Mediterranean to the English Channel, the Rio Grande to Thailand, at any moment there are over 280 million people attempting to emigrate. While most migrants take legal channels, those outside the system represent financial potential for the corrupt. Sex trafficking, drug mules, organ trading, forced labour; the flow of desperate people generates billions of dollars annually, not only for smugglers who get them across borders, but also for traffickers.

Every body has a price, as the veteran investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau knows. Yet no other multi-billion pound transnational enterprise is less understood than the trade in humans, a fact that organised crime networks increasingly exploit …

Abetted by gangs of people smugglers, today human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal industry in the world. As governments spend more than ever on policing borders, this ground-breaking investigation reveals a secretive world where lives don't matter, but where every body counts.

From the Mediterranean to the English Channel, the Rio Grande to Thailand, at any moment there are over 280 million people attempting to emigrate. While most migrants take legal channels, those outside the system represent financial potential for the corrupt. Sex trafficking, drug mules, organ trading, forced labour; the flow of desperate people generates billions of dollars annually, not only for smugglers who get them across borders, but also for traffickers.

Every body has a price, as the veteran investigative journalist Barbie Latza Nadeau knows. Yet no other multi-billion pound transnational enterprise is less understood than the trade in humans, a fact that organised crime networks increasingly exploit as turn to migration for their profits. From the criminal underworld to the highest echelons of national institutions, from mafia cartels to glamorous fashion houses, banks, and governments, this ground-breaking investigation follows the money to reveal a clandestine industry.

2 editions

Library Liberty Zed reviewed Every Body Counts by Barbie Latza Nadeau

Erdrückende Beschreibung von Menschenhandel

4 stars

Content warning Menschenhandel, Gewalt

Menschenhandel und Sklaverei sind fester Bestandteil der modernen Welt. Sie sind bewusst unsichtbar gehalten. Die Armut auf der Welt treibt Menschenhandel an, in dem die Hoffnung von armen Menschen ausgebeutet wird. Der Weg sich stärker abzuschotten, wird wenig gegen Menschenhandel helfen. Hilfreicher sind starke Einrichtungen für Betroffene. "This is the reality of getting help in most of Europe. Helplines that do exist are not efficient. Shelters are small, the number of beds allocated to victims far too few, and protections practically non-existent. There are thousands of Miriams on the streets of Europe who desperately want to be saved. There just isn't the will to save them."

Die International Organisation of Labour schätzt, dass 150 Milliarden pro Jahr damit verdient werden. Zum Vergleich 100 Billionen Dollar sind in etwa das weltweite BIP. Menschenhandel und forced labour machen also etwa 0,15% aus.

Ich denke, für viele Europäer:innen ist forced labour und Menschenhandel sehr weit weg, weil hauptsächlich global arme Menschen betroffen sind. Das Buch hat mich daran erinnert, wieder mehr Geld zu spenden.