Representation of transnational human trafficking in present-day news media, true crime, and fiction

Today is  Anti-Slavery Day, which falls on 18 October in the United Kingdom.  Modern slavery is closely linked to human trafficking and transnational organised crime. Slavery is one of the topics we  investigate on  our research project, as part of examining representations of human trafficking and slavery in representations from media, true crime and crime fiction.   Anti-Slavery Day was created to raise greater awareness of the crime of modern slavery, and to urge government, business and individuals to eliminate it.   (image from  http://www.antislaveryday.com/ ) The horrors of modern slavery are put under spotlight at Migrant Help UK exhibition .  The exhibition will be on show at London’s Victoria Station on Monday 17 October. It will move to Bristol Temple Meads station on Anti-Slavery Day, Tuesday (18); Birmingham New Street station on Wednesday (19); Liverpool Lime Street station on Thursday (20) and Edinburgh Waverley station on Friday (21).    Migrant He

On 3 October our team of investigators launched our PaCCS Research Innovation Award project entitled "Representation of transnational human trafficking in present-day news media, true crime & fiction."    PaCCS stands for Partnership for Conflict, Crime and Security Research.  Our project is awarded under th e  Transnational Organised Crime theme. Our project Facebook page can be found  here .  We tweet from  @TransNatCrime  which can be found  here . Our Principal Investigator, Dr Christiana Gregoriou, summarises the aims of the research project: " The primary purpose of this research is to investigate the portrayal of transnational human trafficking in contemporary crime fiction, the genre of true crime, and news media, given that fictional and supposed factual representations, and media coverage, help shape public knowledge of such crime. This research will investigate how aligned such representations of trafficking are, whilst assuming that ficti