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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryEU’s approach to migrants: humanitarian rhetoric, inhumane treatmentThe European Commission is working on its ‘comprehensive migration agenda’ while migrants continue to die at sea....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMigrant smugglers: monsters or saviours?
Migrant smuggling is often cruel and exploitative, yet it is often the only way to escape poverty or conflict....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCommunity Safety Glasgow visualises prostitutionScotland’s ‘zero tolerance’ stance on prostitution, ostensibly pursued to tackle human trafficking and reduce...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-slavery responses should offer solutions not benevolence
The modern slavery act is seen as a righteous cause for many UK decision makers, however victims of exploitation do...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe 2014 ILO protocol: a new standard, but will states make it real?
Anti-trafficking measures to date have been unsuccessful as they do not address structural labour governance...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom brothel to sweatshop? Questions on labour trafficking in CambodiaGarment manufacturers in Cambodia benefit when anti-trafficking programmes portray clothing manufacturing as the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFilipina entertainers and South Korean anti-trafficking laws
Seoul continues to strengthen its anti-trafficking frameworks, but neither migrant wives nor migrant workers find...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking: whitewash for anti-immigration programmesAnti-trafficking programmes give a humanitarian gloss to national anti-immigration controls, but the citizenship and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking campaigns, sex workers and the roots of damage
Anti-trafficking campaigns have their roots in 19th-century efforts to ‘save’ white women from ‘white slavery.’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe dangerous appeal of the modern slavery paradigm
Endorsing the modern slavery bill, even by seeking to include additional protections within it, supports rather than...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe role of the state and law in trafficking and modern slaveryBeyond Slavery introduces its new issue on the state and the law, elements which not only define slavery but shape...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery bill: migrant domestic workers fall through the gaps
UK immigration rules currently prevent migrant domestic workers from changing employers. This removes these migrant...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery bill fails vulnerable womenIn 2012 the UK government made it illegal for migrant domestic workers to change employers. Parliament has the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryForced labour is big business: states and corporations are doing little to stop it
The recent flurry of government, corporate, and NGO initiatives to eradicate slavery does little to tackle...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBasic income and the anti-slavery movementUnconditional basic income is not only feasible, but it also has more emancipatory potential than any other single...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat would loosen the roots of labour exploitation in supply chains?Forced labour is a symptom of a wider malaise facing workers in global supply chains. Governance gaps and skewed...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of numbers: the Global Slavery Index and the marketplace of activismThe Global Slavery Index is profoundly flawed methodologically, yet it remains widely and often uncritically cited....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryILO campaigns: missing the wood for the trees?
The ILO’s struggle against forced labour doesn’t go far enough. By abstracting ‘forced labour’ from capitalism, it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery and the responsibilities of individual consumers
How can one be an ethical consumer in a globalised world? There are ways to mitigate our involvement in harmful...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAddressing forced labour in fragmented chains of productionWhat are the prospects for protecting workers in global supply chains? From UN principles to business and worker...