Dimensions
160 x 240 x 23mm
An expose of international human trafficking by a prize-winning author.
Slavery is now illegal in every country in the world. However, traffickers continue to buy and sell hundreds of thousands of people into illegal slave trades around the world every year. 'Selling Olga' is a book about human trafficking. It is an expose of its mechanics, economics and global scale, and an investigation into the experiences of individual women and men who have been trafficked, and survived. The world is restless and on the move. People, millions of them, are fleeing poverty, travelling in pursuit of transitory pleasure, dodging persecution or migrating towards the hope of a better life. In the last century the rapid expansion of trade between countries has unleashed globalisation, and changed the way many of us live forever. But the relentless lifting of these barriers to free trade has not been matched by increased freedom of movement for most people. For most, it is getting harder to migrate and especially to emigrate. Faced with relentless poverty (the average wage in Moldova is $1 a day) migrants and immigrants are resorting to breaking the law in order to enter 'the rich man's gate'. People who are trafficked are often subject to intimidation, blackmail, extortion, starvation, and physical and sexual abuse. They are sometimes murdered. This is an extremely violent industry, which sells people for profit. Louisa Waugh's 'Selling Olga' brilliantly identifies the problem; it also eloquently advocates what can be done about it.
