Fighting Human Trafficking or Instituting Authoritarian Control?

Governance by Indicators: Global Power through Quantification and Rankings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Zaloznaya, Marina ^a   Hagan, John ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Agendas; Anti trafficking agenda; Authoritarian contexts; Authoritarian government; Belarus; Human rights repression; Policing systems; Trafficking indicators

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920459470     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199658244.003.0014     Document Type: Chapter

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