This book provides a clear picture of the issues of legal and social legitimacy which surround criminal measures relating to trafficking in human beings in six Member States and the EU. It includes and explains the legal nature of the types of measures which have been adopted and the presentation of criminal sanctions and the positions taken by key actors in civil society.

Elspeth Guild is Professor of European Migration Law at the Radboud University, Nijmegen and a partner at the London law firm Kingsley Napley. She is co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law and the Immigration and Asylum Law and Policy in Europe book Series.
Paul Minderhoud is a Senior Researcher at the Centre for Migration Law of the Radboud University, Nijmegen. He is co-editor of the European Journal of Migration and Law.