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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStill slaving over sugar
Despite the many 19th century acts declaring the emancipation of the enslaved, there are still practices in sugar...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCapitalism’s unfree global workforce
Neoliberal migration and border regimes instantiate a de facto forced labour regime. Migration is increasingly key...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryForced labour under a changing climate: droughts and debt in semi-arid India
Climatic change compounds the vulnerabilities and dependencies existing between households in semi-arid South Asia....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe role of labour market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labour
There has been lots of talk about multinational corporations’ responsibility for fuelling forced labour. But what...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat has forced labour to do with poverty?
Income-based measures of poverty are unreliable for determining who is most vulnerable to forced labour. More...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroducing Beyond Slavery’s month on forced labour in the global political economy
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their February issue exploring the political economic contexts of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan snowball sampling estimate human trafficking?
Snowball sampling is a popular method of researching hidden populations, but its limitations make it the wrong...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe rhetoric and reality of ‘ending slavery in our lifetime’
‘Modern-day abolitionists’ frame their activities as part of a shared global struggle, but there is no single...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFeminism’s undeservedly bad reputation in anti-trafficking discourse
The strain of feminist thinking that promotes the rescue industry and the criminalisation of sex work springs from a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShilling fantasy as reality: a review of ‘Trade’ and ‘Holly’
Movies glorifying the ‘rescue’ of sex workers by men posing as clients are erotic fantasies, not daringly realistic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow big is the trafficking problem? The mysteries of quantification
Wildly different numbers circulate about the number of trafficking victims and modern-day slaves. Victims are hard...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRasTafari and reparation time
RasTafari reject the clear-cut distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery put forward by ‘white abolitionism’, as...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery, child trafficking, and the rise of West African football academies
Ghanaian football academies have been accused of exploiting talent and promoting trafficking in search of profit,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Irish slaves’: the convenient myth
The conflation of indentured servitude with chattel slavery in the ‘Irish slaves’ narrative whitewashes history in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryResidual causes: Wilberforce and forced labour
William Wilberforce is held up as a hero of the contemporary antislavery movement, but his legacy is tainted by his...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction to this week's theme: beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe white man’s burden revisited
The war on trafficking is a contemporary imperialist move that involves ‘the West’ saving ‘the rest’, appearing as a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryImmigration politics, slavery talk: the case for a class perspective
The UK Modern Slavery Bill, and UK politicians’ obsession with immigration, risk undermining political moves to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction: moving beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond Slavery so far…
At the end of 2014, our editorial partnership Beyond Trafficking and Slavery looks back at the ground covered and...