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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryChanging the conversation on labour migration in Southeast Asia
A regional study interrogates some of the commonly held assumptions about which factors lead to better outcomes for...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCrossed boundaries? Migrants and police on the French-Italian border
An eyewitness account and analysis of what it means for French customs officials to force a Nigerian man to urinate in Italy.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery'Let the market decide': the ultimate cop-out in the fight against labour exploitation
Consumers don't have the time or the spare cash to only purchase ethically from companies they've thoroughly...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAlways an afterthought: women in the informal sector
Millions of women work in the Indian informal sector, but very few have a voice at the table. One labour organiser...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySearching for social justice in India
How does one tackle inequality within the caste system?
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWaves of suffocation: two years of the EU-Turkey deal
Two years ago Chios transformed from a waypoint into a detention centre. A local resident asks, was stripping the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNeoabolitionism’s last laugh: India must rethink trafficking
India’s new trafficking bill seeks a wide array of new powers to punish, but does nothing to address the causes of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe draft global compact on migration fails one of its guiding principles. Here is how to fix it.
As delegates begin to debate Zero Draft of the Global Compact on Safe, Orderly, and Regular Migration, they must be...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy boycott Wendy’s? Ask women farmworkers.
The time is up for corporate leaders who turn a blind eye to gender-based violence and labour abuses in their supply chain.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMigration: the make or break election topic across Europe
When an Italian citizen shouted ‘viva l Italia’ and emptied his pistol into a car of black migrants, nobody called...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHidden in plain sight: forced labour constructing China
Invisible coercion through withheld wages, lack of employment contracts, and discrimi-nation of migrant workers is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhom should I marry? Genealogical purity and the shadows of slavery in southern Senegal
Hard choices are made when arranged marriages collide with a slave past.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe multiple roots of Emiratiness: the cosmopolitan history of Emirati society
The UAE, like many other Arabian Gulf States, claims to be home to a homogenous Arab population. In doing so it...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“She is not a ‘Abid”: blackness among slave descendants in southern Tunisia
Connected first by a slave-master relationship and now by geographical proximity, the ‘white’ and ‘black’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery#WeAreOutiHicks: the fight to end gender-based violence in the construction sector
Women in construction experience some of the highest rates of sexual harassment and gender-based violence. Let’s not...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAre Haratines black Moors or just black?
The racialisation of the anti-slavery struggle in Mauritania has created a patchwork of identities and alliances.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOn colour and origin: the case of the akhdam in Yemen
The shift towards a collective identity based on race has had major implications for Yemen’s most marginalised people.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“In the skin of a black”: Senegalese students and young professionals in Rabat
Even student and young professional Senegalese migrants have to navigate the legacies of slavery in Morocco as ‘Africans’.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeing 'black' in North Africa and the Middle East
Former slaves and their descendants in North Africa and the Middle East might be formally free, but the racial...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe power of speaking out: an interview with South Africa’s pioneering activist for domestic workers’ rights
Myrtle Witbooi spent decades working as a domestic worker, before becoming a leader in the domestic worker movement....