With IPS' Break the Chain Campaign prominently featured in the
book,
Life
Interrupted: Trafficking Into Forced Labor In The United States
introduces us to survivors of human trafficking who are struggling to
get by and make homes for themselves in the United States. Having spent
nearly a decade following the lives of formerly trafficked men and
women, author Denise Brennan recounts in close detail their flight from
their abusers and their courageous efforts to rebuild their lives. At
once scholarly and accessible, her book links these firsthand accounts
to global economic inequities and under-regulated and unprotected
workplaces that routinely exploit migrant laborers in the United States.
IPS' Break The Chain Campaign, Duke University Press, Teaching
for Change Bookstore, and Busboys and Poets will host Brennan to share
her contention that today's punitive immigration policies undermine
efforts to fight trafficking. While many believe trafficking
happens only in the sex trade, Brennan shows that across low-wage
labor sectors?in fields, in factories, and on construction
sites?widespread exploitation can lead to and conceal forced labor.
Life Interrupted is a riveting account of life in and after trafficking
and a forceful call for meaningful immigration and labor reform.
Denise Brennan
is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at
Georgetown University. She is the author of What?s Love Got to Do with
It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic,
also published by Duke University Press.
Other co-sponsors include:
Freedom Network
Solidarity Center
Human Trafficking Pro Bono Legal Center
