Comparative Perspectives on Trafficking.

This paper will explore the recent constitution of 'sex trafficking' as an urgent problem in three first-world ('recieving') countries - the United States, Australia and Canada. These countries are all signatories to the United Nations Protocol to Prevent Trafficking and have all developed extensive legal and policy mechanisms over the last decade to address and prevent sex trafficking. This paper explores the nature of these legal and policy mechanisms, exploring similarities and differences between the three countires. It examines the positioning of trafficking as a gendered crime associated with prostitution and the impact of this positioning on women migating for sex work. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]