Jennifer Bryson Clark - The SAGE Handbook of Human Trafficking and Modern Day Slavery

Roksana Alavi, University of Oklahoma, USA

Arun Kumar Acharya, Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Mexico

Steve Shone, Spokane Community College, USA

Ana Sverdlick, South Texas College, USA

Ayodeji Ogundele, South Texas College, USA

Jennifer Bryson Clarkis Associate Professor of Political Science and chair of Women's Studies at South Texas College. Her areas of expertise are forced migration, human trafficking, international political economy and globalization and development. Clark is co-editor of Human Trafficking: A Complex Phenomenon of Globalization and Vulnerability (Routledge, 2015). Her recent research (20152016), which was funded by the US Department of State's Office to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons, involved working as part of a team to study trafficking in Central America and along Mexico's eastern migration routes. She is a founding board member of the Rio Grande Anti-Human Trafficking Coalition, and she received the 2009 South Texas Civil Rights Project's Emma Tenayuca award for her work bringing to light the forms of trafficking and coercion that affect women. Clark also teaches classes on Human Trafficking at Oklahoma UniversitySasha Pouckiholds a PhD in Global Affairs from The Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Newark and a JD from The University of Novi Sad, Republic of Serbia. Dr Poucki is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of Azimuth180. Before joining Azimuth180, Dr Poucki worked as an educator, academic researcher, and consultant. His research interests include the exploration of topics related to the processes of globalization, human trafficking and modern day slavery, human rights, vulnerability of minority groups, business conduct and corporate responsibility, irregular migration, technology and society, cybercrime, and international relations.

Arun Kumar Acharyais a Professor and Researcher at Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon, Monterrey, Mexico. He specializes in research on perspectives and implications of internal and international migration with regard to human trafficking. Currently, he is working as a Professor at Sambalpur University, India. He is founder of the Mexican Centre for Migration and Human Trafficking Studies, Monterrey. Dr. Acharya has published eight books and several journal articles on human trafficking. He also actively participated in the formulation of Mexican anti-trafficking law during 2012 and 2014. His book Perspectives of Human Trafficking in Mexico led most of the states of Mexico to reformulate their local trafficking laws. Recently, the World Bank, Washington DC, invited him to deliver a lecture on The Fragility of the Mexican State and Gender Inequality: the Case of Trafficking in Women'. Currently, he is working as a Professor at Department of Anthropology, Sambalpur University, India.Roksana Alaviis an Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Professional and Continuing Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where she teaches courses on human trafficking, leadership ethics, and women in leadership positions. She is a core affiliate faculty at the Women and Gender Studies program, Center for Social Justice and the Iranian Studies Program. She received her PhD in Philosophy in May of 2008 from the University of Kansas, as well as a Graduate Certificate in Women's Studies in May of 2004. Alavi's general area of research is social and political philosophy. More specifically, she focuses on race, gender, stereotyping, and oppression. Her most recent research has focused on three main areas: (1) critical race theory, and (2) human trafficking, and (3) leadership. She has recently edited a book on ethics and leadership that was published in 2016.Jean Allainis Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, Monash University, Australia, and holds the Chair in International Law with the Wilberforce Institute of the Study of Slavery and Emancipation (WISE) of the University of Hull, UK. Prof Allain is Special Adviser at Anti-Slavery International, the world's oldest human rights organization. He received his PhD from the University of Geneva (HEI) and clerked for the first President of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. His recent books include: