Dr Gillian Wylie is assistant professor of International Peace Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Her research work centres on the issue of human trafficking with a particular interest in the politics of trafficking discourses. Her recent published work includes The International Politics of Human Trafficking (Palgrave 2016) and Feminism, Prostitution and the State: The Politics of Neo-Abolitionism (edited with Eilis Ward, Routledge 2017). Her current work focuses on the nexus between trafficking discourses and the securitization of migration by nation-states.