ºÙºÙÊÓƵ sociologist can talk about the impacts of contemporary slavery and human trafficking around the world and how these practices are related to immigration. Kyle says more people are enslaved today than ever before, although the practice is outlawed in every nation. He wrote "Transnational Peasants: Migrations, Networks and Ethnicity in Andean Ecuador" (2000) and co-edited "Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives" in 2001. His first book, "Global Human Smuggling" was the first scholarly book to examine the practice in various forms in multiple regions of the world, including Mexico-U.S. smuggling. Kyle is fluent in Spanish. Contact: David Kyle, Sociology, (530) 752-1582 (work), (530) 750-2882 (home), djkyle@ucdavis.edu.
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