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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryImmobility as protection in the regime of immigration controlsImmigration regimes have never been about ‘protecting migrants’ – they are and always have been about maintaining...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat’s the difference between having no choice and being forced to choose?The history of indentured workers in the Caribbean has a lot to teach us about ‘human trafficking’ today.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom Geneva to Guwahati: demanding fair wages for Assam’s tea workersAs the UN meets in Geneva to discuss human rights the tea workers in Guwahati are standing up for theirs.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBeyond ‘raid and rescue’: time to acknowledge the damage being doneRaid and rescue operations are widely portrayed as heroic efforts to save the innocent from the evil. But, as this...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery, Brexit, migration, and development: connecting the dotsRegardless of how one feels about migrants, protecting them in the labour market will bring benefits to all workers.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWorking for former masters in Madagascar: a ‘win-win’ game for former slaves?Workers and landowners in the Malagasy highlands see sharecropping as an arrangement where both benefit, but that...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery'White slavery': the origins of the anti-trafficking movementA nineteenth century drive to protect the morality of white women created the concept of ‘human trafficking’, and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe problem of “working for someone”: debt, dependence and labour exploitation in ChadPrecolonial elites used to enslave the farmers of rural Chad, now they hold them in debt bondage. How much has...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNavigating unsafe workplaces in Costa Rica’s banana industryDeeply rooted gender and class hierarchies mean that gender-based violence does not end at home - women are also...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryContainment, resistance, flight: Migrant labour in the agro-industrial district of Foggia, ItalyA ‘special economic zone’ exists in southeastern Italy where the rules and standards of work do not apply.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIgnoring the benefits of children’s workWork can have many benefits for children. Policy responses need to understand and foster those benefits, not succumb...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTime to take working children seriouslyOn the occasion of the IV Global Conference on the Sustained Eradication of Child Labour, it is time to listen to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBizarre bureaucratic dysfunction in child labourThe ILO, UNICEF, and the Committee on the Rights of the Child promote policies known to harm children. What will...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe globalisation of dignityWorking children have been prevented from attending the ILO’s child labour conference, currently taking place in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter from working children to the UN Committee on the Rights of the ChildAfter being excluded from the IV Global Conference on the Eradication of Child Labour, working children and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe La Paz DeclarationFor the global defence of the dignity and well-being of children and adolescents who work. Español
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryExtorted and exploited: Haitian labourers on Dominican sugar plantationsHaiti, a former sugar colony, was formed through the rebellion of slaves, yet now many Haitians find themselves...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAgricultural investments in Tanzania: economic opportunities or new forms of exploitation?Many are celebrating the fact that Tanzania is welcoming private investors in the agricultural sector, but who is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryStruggling on the wrong side of the chain: labour exploitation in global agricultureThis week’s special series discusses the working conditions, the dynamics of exploitation, and the degree of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIndigenous workers: the ‘modern slaves’ of Australia?How can the Global Slavery Index claim Australia has so few ‘modern slaves’, when so many Indigenous men and women...
