Learning from Failure in Human Trafficking
Law, Policy and Practice
Amy Weatherburn editor Silvia Rodríguez-López editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:16th Nov '26
£171.99
This title is due to be published on 16th November, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This edited collection offers a ground‑breaking shift in anti‑trafficking literature by focusing on what goes wrong in order to determine how to fix it. Adopting a highly accessible, multidisciplinary approach, this international collection brings together leading scholars and legal practitioners to expose the critical gaps in current global response systems.
Thematically, this book is structured around three core pillars. First, it challenges outdated definitions of exploitation, particularly regarding child criminal exploitation, sex work, and labour trafficking. Second, it evaluates operational failures in victim identification and protection, using highly topical real case studies from different continents such as cross‑border drug smuggling in Chile, cyber‑scam factories in Southeast Asia, and the high‑profile Dominic Ongwen case at the International Criminal Court. Finally, this book focuses on structural failures, addressing cutting‑edge realities, such as the role of artificial intelligence in the fight against human trafficking, and the importance of integrating survivors’ testimonies and lived experiences into research, law‑making, and public policy.
By courageously analysing why past frameworks have failed, this essential volume delivers actionable, evidence‑based, and survivor‑centred solutions to reshape future law, policy, and practice worldwide.
For too long, anti-trafficking responses have been built around systems instead of people. As someone with lived experience of exploitation and now a survivor leader, I know that many of the failures discussed in this book are not just theories, they are realities that survivors have lived through. We have been misidentified, unheard, criminalised, and too often excluded from decisions made about our lives. This book does something that is desperately needed. It doesn't just point out where things have gone wrong; it challenges us to do better. It recognises that survivors are not simply stories to be told or consulted at the end of a project, we are experts through experience, and our knowledge belongs at the heart of research, policy, and practice. Learning from failure takes honesty, courage, and a willingness to change. This collection offers all three. My hope is that everyone working in this field reads it with an open mind and, more importantly, is prepared to act on what they learn. Real change will only happen when survivor voices move from the margins to the centre of anti-trafficking work.
Jane Lasonder, Survivor Leader and Advocate
ISBN: 9781041200895
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 630g
242 pages