"Human Trafficking" provides a critical engagement with the key debates on human trade. It addresses the subject within the broader context of global crime and the internationalisation of crime control. The book takes a broadly discursive approach and draws on historical, comparative as well as the latest empirical material to illustrate and inform the discussion of the major trends in human trafficking. The book helps to develop fresh theoretical insights into globalisation, exclusion and governance, and identifies a new research agenda that will ensure the book is of interest to advanced level students as well as academic scholars.The key features includes: historical, conceptual and methodological approaches to the examination of humantrafficking; comparisons of specific key regional case studies including Asia and Eastern Europe; and analysis of how human trafiicking is governed and controlled.