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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBound and determined: new abolitionism and the campaign against modern slaveryThe question of mobility was central to struggles against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. Current...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAt any cost: the injustice of the “4 and 4 rule” in CanadaImmigration rules in Canada are forcing out already-vulnerable temporary foreign workers. The measure’s class...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery, asylum, and the face of social death in modern day Britain
The dehumanisation of transatlantic slaves has strong echoes in the UK’s current immigration regime, which separates...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe UK: the far shore for torture survivors
The relatively small number of torture survivors who make it to the UK face disbelief, the threat of detention and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlave state: how UK immigration controls create ‘slaves’
British immigration controls aren’t working and policies stripping rights from large numbers of migrants are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFamilies in detentionThe United States uses the detention of families and unaccompanied minors as a method of deterring immigration. This...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Foreign criminals’ and victims of trafficking—fantasies, categories and control
Casting migrants and smugglers as 'victims and villains' allows states to play saviour and legitimates immigration...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySilencing the challenging voices of the global ‘subalterns’ in anti-trafficking discourse
Contemporary anti-trafficking discourses are powered by a series of gendered and racialised binaries that silence...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySafe migration as an emerging anti-trafficking agenda?Safe migration has become a way for anti-trafficking organisations to re-articulate how a concern with labour...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe border spectacle of migrant ‘victimisation’There’s nothing self-evident about ‘illegal’ migration. When borders become a spectacle of migrant deaths,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTwisting the 'lessons of history' to authorise unjustifiable violence: the Mediterranean crisisMore than 300 slavery and migration scholars respond to those advocating for military force against migrants...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIllegalised migrants and temporary foreign workers: the new international segmentation of labourLabour markets are segmented, and the vulnerability at the bottom underpins the stability and benefit at the top....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFascist legacies: Italy’s approach to mobility and mobile labourItaly abolished Mussolini-era laws restricting internal mobility in the 1960s, yet troubling continuities exist...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOvercoming space: mobility and historyMobility is integral to human life, but not all mobility is treated as equivalent. What happens to those who are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOn freedom and (im)mobility: how states create vulnerability by controlling human movementBeyond Slavery introduces its next issue on trafficking, smuggling and migration, arguing that mobility is central...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryServants of capitalismCapitalism has always depended on domestic servitude, which still persists today. So why have the women clothing,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReparations are too confronting: let’s talk about 'modern-day slavery' insteadGovernments and activists in Europe and America invoke the immediacy of “modern-day slavery” to sidestep challenging...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA wall of silence around slavery
We must acknowledge slavery’s role in creating the modern world if we are to address its legacy. The UNESCO Slave...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery is not dead: it’s not even pastCommemorating slavery is popular in Europe and the Americas these days, but the living legacies of slavery remain...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDifferent times, same weaknesses: abolitionism past and presentActivism against so-called 'modern slavery' often appears to descend from the abolitionism of previous centuries....