Parties for ten year olds are popular in the anti-trafficking world right now. The Freedom Fund celebrated a decade last May, the UK’s Modern Slavery Act in March. Closer to home, we at Beyond Trafficking and Slavery (BTS) also just entered double figures. It was either throw a party as well or take a long, hard look in the mirror. We’ve opted for the latter.
Today we’re launching a new, ten-year anniversary feature which does two main things. It takes stock by asking how the anti-trafficking field has evolved and where it looks to be heading in the future. And it turns the microscope on ourselves, by offering up a critique of anti-trafficking’s critics – including BTS – over the last decade.
We asked our contributors to tell us about our preoccupations, blind spots, and prejudices. We asked them to be frank about how we undermine our messages and where else we get it wrong. And we asked them how we could do it better.
