Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered

Vladislava Stoyanova is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Lunds Universitet, Sweden. She is a lecturer in Migration Law and Human Rights Law and the director of the Migration Law course. She has published extensively in the field of human trafficking, slavery, migration law, refugee law and human rights law, and is an expert in Bulgarian migration and refugee law.

• 1. Introduction; Part I. The Human Trafficking Legal Framework: 2. Origins, context and the currently valid law; 3. The definition of human trafficking in international law; 4. Positive obligations under the human trafficking legal framework; Part II. The Human Rights Law Framework: 5. The historical background; 6. Definitions with contemporary relevance; 7. The relationship between the concept of human trafficking and the concepts of slavery, servitude and forced labour; 8. Positive obligations under human rights law; 9. Conclusion.

'Vladislava Stoyonova's book is as intellectually courageous as it is meticulously researched. She effectively challenges the dominant discourse of human trafficking, showing that human rights are more effectively ensured by grappling with the modern meaning of slavery, servitude, and forced labour. This is a fine legal analysis, proving the wisdom of grounding advocacy in legal norms of indisputable authority.' James Hathaway, University of Michigan Law School