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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisisEconomic crisis has pushed Indian tea workers to seek employment outside the plantations, forcing them to re-engage...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of slavery, racism and democracy in MauritaniaThe history of slavery is central to racism, activism and democracy in Mauritania. Much of what happens next will...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShades of white: gender, race, and slavery in the CaribbeanBoth whiteness and blackness were stratified along gendered lines in the colonial-era Caribbean. Many of the norms...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs memory enough? Remembering the racial legacies of slavery in France todayFrance is the only European slave-trading nation to legally recognise slavery and the slave trade as crimes against...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRacism, citizenship and deportation in the United StatesUS immigration laws from 1996 are draconian on paper and racially discriminatory in practice. Immigration reform in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe mythology of racial democracy in BrazilBrazil’s government has taken important steps to combat racial inequalities over the past two decades....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basinInvisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe present tense of (racial) slavery: the racial chattel logic of the US prisonThe US prison regime functions through a racial chattel logic. Its animating force is not economic exploitation but...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDon’t call it a comeback: racial slavery is not yet abolishedThe long and on-going history of black freedom struggle should remain the contemporary focal point and forum of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDéformer les « leçons de l’histoire » pour autoriser une violence injustifiable : la crise méditerranéennePlus de 300 universitaires spécialistes des migrations et de l’esclavage répondent à ceux qui défendent...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe political economy of personhoodMost humans have not been, and still are not, recognised as persons: gender and race remain prerequisites for...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRace, ethnicity and belongingRace is, ironically, an often-overlooked aspect of the modern slavery debate. BTS editors look critically at the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThinking about open bordersThe free movement of people across international borders is a taboo in international political debates, making a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe case for open bordersThe discretionary control that states exercise over immigration is unjust. People should normally be free to cross...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen spring comes, smugglers are in the news
Migrants in Morocco often attempt to cross the Mediterranean only after years of exploitation and exclusion. Their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFerries not Frontex! 10 points to really end the deaths of migrants at seaThe EU response to the increasing number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea is riddled with falsity....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNorth Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled
North Koreans’ migration to China is highly complex, more so than when it is depicted simply as ‘human-trafficking’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFreedom fighters: freelancing as direct actionMigrant domestic workers in the Middle East act as if they were already free when they resist the constraining...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBound and determined: new abolitionism and the campaign against modern slavery
The question of mobility was central to struggles against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. Current...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights talk, wrong comparison: trafficking and transatlantic slavery
Transatlantic slavery relied on force to move people, while today’s ‘trafficking’ does not. Vulnerable migrants have...