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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStill slaving over sugarDespite 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 workforceNeoliberal 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 IndiaClimatic 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 labourThere 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 economyBeyond 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 discourseThe 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 quantificationWildly 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 timeRasTafari 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 academiesGhanaian 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 mythThe 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 labourWilliam 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 revisitedThe 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 perspectiveThe 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 slaveryBeyond 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...
