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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTortured for ransom: extortion on migrant routesThe phenomenon of torture for ransom is increasingly occurring on migrant routes as a new form of human trafficking.
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDisenfranchised citizens, unfree labour: The social and political exclusion of India’s internal circular migrantsToo often excluded from political representation and social protection, Indian ‘circular migrants’ need a better...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery“Let us live or make us die!” Migrants’ challenge to their outlawryOn International Migrants Day, all liberal democratic states will reaffirm their respect for migrants' rights. This...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe UN Convention on Migrant Workers’ Rights at 25The UN Convention on Migrant Workers' Rights has not yet been ratified by a single western migrant-receiving state,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDéformer les « leçons de l’histoire » pour autoriser une violence injustifiable : la crise méditerranéennePlus de 300 universitaires spécialistes des migrations et de l’esclavage répondent à ceux qui défendent...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe case for open bordersThe discretionary control that states exercise over immigration is unjust. People should normally be free to cross...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThinking about open bordersThe free movement of people across international borders is a taboo in international political debates, making a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen spring comes, smugglers are in the news
Migrants in Morocco often attempt to cross the Mediterranean only after years of exploitation and exclusion. Their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFerries not Frontex! 10 points to really end the deaths of migrants at seaThe EU response to the increasing number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea is riddled with falsity....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNorth Korean migrants in China: neither trafficked nor smuggled
North Koreans’ migration to China is highly complex, more so than when it is depicted simply as ‘human-trafficking’...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFreedom fighters: freelancing as direct actionMigrant domestic workers in the Middle East act as if they were already free when they resist the constraining...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBound and determined: new abolitionism and the campaign against modern slavery
The question of mobility was central to struggles against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. Current...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRights talk, wrong comparison: trafficking and transatlantic slavery
Transatlantic slavery relied on force to move people, while today’s ‘trafficking’ does not. Vulnerable migrants have...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAt any cost: the injustice of the “4 and 4 rule” in CanadaImmigration rules in Canada are forcing out already-vulnerable temporary foreign workers. The measure’s class...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery, asylum, and the face of social death in modern day Britain
The dehumanisation of transatlantic slaves has strong echoes in the UK’s current immigration regime, which separates...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe UK: the far shore for torture survivors
The relatively small number of torture survivors who make it to the UK face disbelief, the threat of detention and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlave state: how UK immigration controls create ‘slaves’
British immigration controls aren’t working and policies stripping rights from large numbers of migrants are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFamilies in detentionThe United States uses the detention of families and unaccompanied minors as a method of deterring immigration. This...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Foreign criminals’ and victims of trafficking—fantasies, categories and control
Casting migrants and smugglers as 'victims and villains' allows states to play saviour and legitimates immigration...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySilencing the challenging voices of the global ‘subalterns’ in anti-trafficking discourse
Contemporary anti-trafficking discourses are powered by a series of gendered and racialised binaries that silence...
