Trafficking in Women in the European Union: Norms, Advocacy-Networks and Policy-Change [Paperback]

Norms in International Politics - Trafficking in Women and the EU: Elements of a Framework for Analysis - Actors in the 'Velvet Triangle' - Political Opportunity Structures - The Anti-Trafficking-Regime: Norm-Emergence in Historical Perspective - Trafficking and the European Community: The Silence of the Early Decades - The Extension of EU-Actions against Trafficking - The Consolidation of the EU's Anti-Trafficking Policy - Explaining Trafficking in Women in the European Union etc. Das Buch ist aus wissenschaftlicher Perspektive ein Novum, da die Autorin erstmals den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Menschenhandel und der Umsetzung von europ?ischen Rechtsnormen systematisch untersucht. Gleichzeitig bietet sie einen leicht verst?ndlichen ?berblick ?ber die gesamte Spannbreite der Problematik. www.zpol.de (Zeitschrift f?r Politikwissenschaft), 29.07.2008

[...] eine beeindruckende theoriegeleitete und -entwickelte Fallstudie ?ber ein bislang kaum erforschtes Politikfeld. Femina Politica, 02/2007Dr. rer. pol. Birgit Locher is political consultant and works as a researcher at the University of T?bingen.Trafficking in women has become a severe human rights problem in the European Union. Cur-rently the trade in human beings generates higher profits than trafficking drugs or weapons. The book describes the history and the dimension of the phenomenon in the EU. It centers around the question, when, how and why the European Union started to fight trafficking in women. The author argues that it has been due to power of international norms, successfully operating advo-cacy-networks and favorable political opportunity structures that the problem could draw public and political attention.
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