Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking

Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-78213-3
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 153 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 2173 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregoriou, Christiana

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Sprachwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Textlinguistik, Diskursanalyse, Stilistik
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Kommunikationswissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Computerlinguistik, Korpuslinguistik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Christiana Gregoriou is an Associate Professor in English Language at Leeds University’s School of English, UK. She is a specialist in crime fiction stylistics, and employs critical linguistic analysis to the study of crime fiction but also other crime-related discourse (including media texts and the true crime genre).