Introduction: understanding human trafficking / Maggy Lee -- Historical approaches to the trade in human beings / John T. Picarelli -- Researching into human trafficking: issues and problems / Andrea Di Nicola -- A conducive context: trafficking of persons in Central Asia / Liz Kelly -- Trafficking into and from Eastern Europe / Ewa Morawska -- Human trafficking as a form of transnational crime / Louise Shelley -- From HIV prevention to counter-trafficking: discursive shifts and international continuities in South-East Asia / Johan Lindquist and Nicola Piper -- Immigration detention in Britain / Mary Bosworth -- Shooting the passenger: Australia's war on illicit migrants / Michael Grewcock -- The rights of strangers: policies, theories, philosophies / Barbara Hudson.