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Trading Life
Organ Trafficking, Illicit Networks, and Exploitation
Taschenbuch von Seán Columb
Sprache: Englisch

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"Trading Life investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade in Cairo, Egypt, based on interviews with organ sellers and brokers"--
"Trading Life investigates the emergence and evolution of the organ trade in Cairo, Egypt, based on interviews with organ sellers and brokers"--
Über den Autor
Seán Columb is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. His writing and commentary has been featured in Le Monde, The Times, The Guardian, and BBC World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents and Abstracts
1Excavating the Organ Trade
chapter abstract

The introductory chapter provides contextual background on the organ trade and outlines the key themes and arguments in the book. The current legal and policy response to the organ trade is critically examined at the international level. This analysis leads to an explanation of how law and policy produce and construct vulnerability to exploitation in organ markets. Egypt is introduced as the main research site, where in-depth narrative interviews were carried out with organ sellers, brokers, and transplant professionals.

2The Illegal Trade in Organs
chapter abstract

Chapter 2 examines how an illegal market in organs emerged in the Egyptian-Sudanese context. Contrary to popular opinion, the organ trade is not a direct consequence of a global shortage in organs. Rather, the trade in organs is causally related to the transfer of transplant capabilities to the global South. Accordingly, the commercial expansion of the transplant industry is linked to the emergence of organ trading as an economic activity. The organ trade is thus better understood as an informal economy activity as opposed to a human trafficking offense.

3Organ Trading Networks
chapter abstract

The findings in Chapter 3 reflect personal encounters with Sudanese (North and South) nationals who sold or arranged the sale of kidneys. Their accounts provide unique insights into the organization and activities of organ trading networks in Cairo and the political and social arrangements that compel people to consider selling a kidney.

4Disqualified Bodies
chapter abstract

Chapter 4 examines the background conditions and legal structures that underpin exploitative relations in organ markets. Although some of the study respondents were physically coerced into organ removal, it is exploitation experienced at the structural level that ultimately pushes people into organ sale. In this regard, the oppressive processes of exploitation that position migrant populations as organ sellers in Cairo are explored through the social and legal context in which migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have sold a kidney. The wider implications of legal measures established in response to reports of organ trafficking are considered.

5Exodus
chapter abstract

Chapter 5 engages with the narratives of African migrants who attempted to make the journey to Europe using irregular routes. Unable to finance the cost of travel, people smugglers (referred to as samsara by the respondents) encouraged them to sell a kidney to raise the necessary capital. The experiences of the Sudanese, Eritrean, and Ethiopian migrants interviewed in Cairo are used to examine the impact of crime and immigration controls on informal market dynamics and to explore the convergence of smuggling and organ trading networks in Cairo's informal economy.

6Organ(ized) Crime
chapter abstract

Chapter 6 explores how changes to the regulatory environment influenced the level of physical violence involved in the organ trade and the organizational structure of a criminal group operating within and between Khartoum, Sudan, and Cairo, Egypt. The criminal organization described in this chapter should not be taken as representative of the organ trade as a whole, as it exists in Egypt or elsewhere. It does, however, signal a need for policy change to prevent the development of more pernicious forms of organized crime.

7Regulating the Organ Trade
chapter abstract

The adverse effects of crime and immigration policies suggest that more far-reaching legal reforms are needed with regard to the organ trade and to other forms of exploitation nominally defined as trafficking offenses. In this final chapter alternative regulatory approaches beyond criminal sanction are explored.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Internationales & ausländ. Recht
Genre: Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503612556
ISBN-10: 1503612554
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Columb, Seán
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Seán Columb
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 117018030
Über den Autor
Seán Columb is Lecturer in Law at the School of Law and Social Justice, University of Liverpool. His writing and commentary has been featured in Le Monde, The Times, The Guardian, and BBC World.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents and Abstracts
1Excavating the Organ Trade
chapter abstract

The introductory chapter provides contextual background on the organ trade and outlines the key themes and arguments in the book. The current legal and policy response to the organ trade is critically examined at the international level. This analysis leads to an explanation of how law and policy produce and construct vulnerability to exploitation in organ markets. Egypt is introduced as the main research site, where in-depth narrative interviews were carried out with organ sellers, brokers, and transplant professionals.

2The Illegal Trade in Organs
chapter abstract

Chapter 2 examines how an illegal market in organs emerged in the Egyptian-Sudanese context. Contrary to popular opinion, the organ trade is not a direct consequence of a global shortage in organs. Rather, the trade in organs is causally related to the transfer of transplant capabilities to the global South. Accordingly, the commercial expansion of the transplant industry is linked to the emergence of organ trading as an economic activity. The organ trade is thus better understood as an informal economy activity as opposed to a human trafficking offense.

3Organ Trading Networks
chapter abstract

The findings in Chapter 3 reflect personal encounters with Sudanese (North and South) nationals who sold or arranged the sale of kidneys. Their accounts provide unique insights into the organization and activities of organ trading networks in Cairo and the political and social arrangements that compel people to consider selling a kidney.

4Disqualified Bodies
chapter abstract

Chapter 4 examines the background conditions and legal structures that underpin exploitative relations in organ markets. Although some of the study respondents were physically coerced into organ removal, it is exploitation experienced at the structural level that ultimately pushes people into organ sale. In this regard, the oppressive processes of exploitation that position migrant populations as organ sellers in Cairo are explored through the social and legal context in which migrants, asylum seekers, and refugees have sold a kidney. The wider implications of legal measures established in response to reports of organ trafficking are considered.

5Exodus
chapter abstract

Chapter 5 engages with the narratives of African migrants who attempted to make the journey to Europe using irregular routes. Unable to finance the cost of travel, people smugglers (referred to as samsara by the respondents) encouraged them to sell a kidney to raise the necessary capital. The experiences of the Sudanese, Eritrean, and Ethiopian migrants interviewed in Cairo are used to examine the impact of crime and immigration controls on informal market dynamics and to explore the convergence of smuggling and organ trading networks in Cairo's informal economy.

6Organ(ized) Crime
chapter abstract

Chapter 6 explores how changes to the regulatory environment influenced the level of physical violence involved in the organ trade and the organizational structure of a criminal group operating within and between Khartoum, Sudan, and Cairo, Egypt. The criminal organization described in this chapter should not be taken as representative of the organ trade as a whole, as it exists in Egypt or elsewhere. It does, however, signal a need for policy change to prevent the development of more pernicious forms of organized crime.

7Regulating the Organ Trade
chapter abstract

The adverse effects of crime and immigration policies suggest that more far-reaching legal reforms are needed with regard to the organ trade and to other forms of exploitation nominally defined as trafficking offenses. In this final chapter alternative regulatory approaches beyond criminal sanction are explored.

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Fachbereich: Internationales & ausländ. Recht
Genre: Recht
Produktart: Nachschlagewerke
Rubrik: Recht & Wirtschaft
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781503612556
ISBN-10: 1503612554
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Columb, Seán
Hersteller: Stanford University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 13 mm
Von/Mit: Seán Columb
Erscheinungsdatum: 21.07.2020
Gewicht: 0,336 kg
Artikel-ID: 117018030
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