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Our book is published!

The culmination of our year-long PaCCS-funded research project - our edited book "Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction" - has now been published by Palgrave! This is the link to the Open Access version of the book, kindly funded by an additional grant by the ESRC.  Representations of Transnational Human Trafficking: Present-day News Media, True Crime, and Fiction.

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