Journal of Underrepresented & Minority Progress

This special issue, “Human Trafficking in the Global South: A Comprehensive Exploration” attempted to highlight issues of socio-economic inequality, gender and social discrimination, conflict, and governance with reference to human trafficking. The issue invited research articles focusing on the unique conditions of the Global South across literary and media genres, scholars contributed to the global fight against trafficking by analyzing some of the causal factors at macro (or mezzo level) and micro level. At the former level, poverty and economic vulnerability, social and cultural practices, lack of human rights protections, lack of education, conflict and natural disasters, lack of safe migration options, the effect of neoliberalism in Global South, corruption, weak legislation and political instability is analyzed.