Sex trafficking is sadly nothing new. Five years ago, she went back to the police file, with plans to write a general academic book about the history of sex trafficking in Britain. Julia Laite is the UK-based author of The Disappearance of Lydia Harvey, about a young Oamaru woman caught in a global, early-1900s, sex trafficking ring. Time was spent in Dunedin, Oamaru and Wellington, as well as Melbourne and Sydney. Photo / SuppliedThe story has many parallels to contemporary trends and issues — globalisation, low-wage economies, trafficking, international policing, migration, inequalities, attitudes to sex ...Laite highlights three.

Source: New Zealand Herald July 12, 2021 01:52 UTC