Tuesday, March 7

Kevin Bales
Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy

McCrary Theatre, 7:30 p.m.

Dr. Kevin Bales, an internationally recognized authority on contemporary
slavery, is President of Free the Slaves, the U.S. sister organization of
Anti-Slavery International, and Visiting Professor at the Croft Institute for International Studies at the University of Mississippi. In Disposable People:
New Slavery in the Global Economy, he reveals the nature of present day
bondage and uncovers the economic and social forces that sustain this
deplorable global phenomenon. The book was nominated for a Pulitzer
Prize, and published in ten languages.

Bales received his Ph.D. from The London School of Economics. He was a consultant to the UN Global Program on Human Trafficking and has advised
the US, British, Irish, Norwegian, and Nepali governments, as well as
the ECOWAS Community, on slavery and human trafficking policy.
In his lecture at McCrary Theatre, Bales will present findings from a National Institute of Justice sponsored research project into human trafficking in
the United States. Tentative findings from the research include the
importance of intelligence in identifying trafficking cases, the importance
of “good Samaritans,” the gap between the number of cases federal agencies
can prosecute and the actual number of cases, a lack of clear divisions of responsibility in the investigation of cases as well as the basic tools to
investigate and prosecute known cases. He will concludes with significant recommendations for increasing prosecutions of human traffickers.

Sponsored by General Studies, the Truitt Center for Religious and Spiritual Life, and Cultural Programs

Online Resources

Free the Slaves
http://www.freetheslaves.net

Anti-Slavery International
http://www.iabolish.org

National Geographic Magazine Online Extra
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0309/feature1/online_extra.html

Contemporary Slavery: An Elon University Project Web Links
http://org.elon.edu/slavery/web.html

Ticket Information

Admission is free and the public is invited. A ticket is not required.