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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against global human trafficking and its root causes.

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This book is a contribution towards a better understanding of the nature of the international crime of human trafficking. It is an impulse towards finding a new way at the international levels, and encouraging cooperation among nations in the fight against human trafficking and its root causes. The author analyzes human trafficking, which can be termed as "modern-day slavery" and in its complexity and dynamism ends up in the exploitation of the victims for the personal gains of a person or group of persons. A majority of the victims, especially women, end up in the sex industries. In most cases people are transported from the so-called underdeveloped to supposedly developed regions. As a result, women and girls are smuggled yearly from underdeveloped countries, for example Nigeria, to Europe and America.

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Human - Women - Trafficking - 21st Century - Vulnerability - Nigerians in Austria - Human rights - Forced migration - New trends in trafficking - Removal of organs - Causes of human trafficking - Models of exploitation - Push and pull factors - Demand and supply syndrome - Estimation of human trafficking - Victims in Austria - Forgery and confiscation of documents - Combating human trafficking - Vienna forum - un.gift - Naptip - Ecowas - Decriminalization - Migration management.

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Chigozie Nnebedum holds a Licentiate and PhD in Social Ethics from the Catholic University Linz, and a PhD in Sociology from the Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. He is in the WieGe team of the Catholic University Linz, and lectures at the Godfrey Okoye University Enugu, Nigeria.

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