This article considers the attention paid to human trafficking in the
Caribbean by governments of the region. It first examines how countries in
the region have been positioned in the annual US Trafficking in Persons
(TIP) Report from 2001 to 2016, discussing the shortcomings of hegemonic
discourses to trafficking such as problems with definitions, statistics and
evidence, the political underpinnings of the TIP report, and contradictions
in indices of ‘development’ in the region. It then turns to examine