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On freedom and (im)mobility: how states create vulnerability by controlling human movement

Beyond Slavery introduces its next issue on trafficking, smuggling and migration, arguing that mobility is central to life and that state restrictions on movement are the true threat to human wellbeing. Español

By Neil Howard and Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 18 May 2015

Introduction to this week's theme: beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery

Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and trafficking have been represented—by public officials, activists, and numerous others—and their effect.

By Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 12 Jan 2015

Introduction to this week's theme: beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery

Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and trafficking have been represented—by public officials, activists, and numerous others—and their effect.

By Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 12 Jan 2015

Introduction: moving beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery

Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and trafficking have been represented—by public officials, activists, and numerous others—together with the frequently troubling consequences that these popular representations have had upon polic

By Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 11 Jan 2015

Introduction: moving beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery

Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and trafficking have been represented—by public officials, activists, and numerous others—together with the frequently troubling consequences that these popular representations have had upon polic

By Joel Quirk and Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 11 Jan 2015

Convenient conflations: modern slavery, trafficking, and prostitution

Laws to reduce buying sex, such as proposed amendments to the Modern Slavery Bill, are not only ineffective, but their moral underpinnings drive them to single out sex work while ignoring other sectors in which women are at risk of exploitation.

By Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 4 Nov 2014

Convenient conflations: modern slavery, trafficking, and prostitution

Laws to reduce buying sex, such as proposed amendments to the Modern Slavery Bill, are not only ineffective, but their moral underpinnings drive them to single out sex work while ignoring other sectors in which women are at risk of exploitation.

By Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 4 Nov 2014

Happy endings? Slavery, emancipation and freedom

Let’s stop giving the architects and beneficiaries of an increasingly neoliberal world order a platform on which to parade their moral condemnation of ‘slavery’, and focus on efforts to transform the meaning of ‘freedom’.

By Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 7 Oct 2014

Happy endings? Slavery, emancipation and freedom

Let’s stop giving the architects and beneficiaries of an increasingly neoliberal world order a platform on which to parade their moral condemnation of ‘slavery’, and focus on efforts to transform the meaning of ‘freedom’.

By Julia O'Connell Davidson

/ 7 Oct 2014