Borderline Slavery

Susan Tiano is Director of the Latin American and Iberian Institute and Professor of Sociology at the University of New Mexico, USA. She is author of Patriarchy on the Line: Gender, Labor, and Ideology in the Mexican Maquila Industry and co-editor of Women on the United States-Mexico Border: Responses to Change. Moira Murphy-Aguilar worked at the Center for Inter-American and Border Studies at the University of Texas at El Paso and taught in the Latin American and Border Studies Program. Previously she was a Professor of Administration and Social Sciences at Monterrey Tech in Mexico. Her publications include the books Ciudad Juárez: Entre la Frontera y el Mundo and Educación e Investigación: Retos y Oportunidades.

Part I The Global Context; Chapter 1 Introduction, Susan Tiano; Chapter 2 Human Trafficking, Susan Tiano; Chapter 3 Migration, Sandro Calvani, Olivia Jung, Vittoria Luda di Cortemiglia; Chapter 4 Trafficking in Women and Girls, Kathryn Farr; Part II Human Trafficking in Mexico; Chapter 5 Trata de Personas, Gustavo de Unánue Aguirre; Chapter 6 Corazón Azul, Roberto Rodríquez Hernández; Chapter 7 Sex Trafficking in Mexico, Jenny Clark; Chapter 8 Assessing Human Trafficking in Mexico, Brenner Allen; Part III Human Trafficking along the U.S.–Mexico Border; Chapter 9 Human Trafficking and the U.S.–Mexico Border, Tony Payan; Chapter 10 The Best Smugglers in El Paso, David B. Ham; Chapter 11 Human Trafficking Through Mexico and the Southwest Border, Richard J. Schaefer, Carolyn Gonzales; Chapter 12 Aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita, Stephanie Hepburn; Part IV Combating Human Trafficking; Chapter 13 Roadblocks to Legal Help for Trafficking Victims, Lise Olsen; Chapter 14 A Model for Coordination in Anti-Human Trafficking Task Forces, Virginia McCrimmon; Chapter 15 Combating Human Trafficking in the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands, Moira Murphy-Aguilar, Susan Tiano;