5. The Illusiveness of Counting “Victims” and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Acknowledgments viii
5. 1.Introduction: the politics of numbers 1
6. 2.The Politics of Measuring Illicit Flows and Policy Effectiveness 23
7. 3.Trafficking in Numbers: the social construction of human trafficking data 46
8. 4. Numbers and Certification: assessing foreign compliance in combating narcotics and human trafficking 75
9. 5. The Illusiveness of Counting “Victims” and the Concreteness of Ranking Countries: trafficking in persons from Colombia to Japan 110
10. 6. Counting the Cost: the politics of numbers in armed conflict 127
11. 7. Research and Repercussions of Death Tolls: the case of the Bosnian book of the dead 159
12. 8. The Ambiguous Genocide: the U.S. state department and the death toll in Darfur 188
13. 9. Accounting for Absence: the Colombian paramilitaries in U.S. policy debates 215
14. 10. (Mis)Measuring Success in Countering the Financing of Terrorism 247
15. 11. Conclusion: the numbers in politics 264
16. Index 279