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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTwo years of the ‘Irish slaves’ myth: racism, reductionism and the tradition of diminishing the transatlantic slave tradeThe myth of ‘Irish slaves’ and of an ‘equality of suffering’ between enslaved Africans and white Europeans has gone...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReparations for enslavement, UNESCO, and the United Nations decade for peoples of African descentMore and more groups are demanding state reparations for the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Could this be a reality...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlave narratives from the pastThe existence of more than 200 autobiographical writings by former slaves gives us a crucial window in the world of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryServants of capitalismCapitalism has always depended on domestic servitude, which still persists today. So why have the women clothing,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReparations are too confronting: let’s talk about 'modern-day slavery' insteadGovernments and activists in Europe and America invoke the immediacy of “modern-day slavery” to sidestep challenging...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA wall of silence around slaveryWe must acknowledge slavery’s role in creating the modern world if we are to address its legacy. The UNESCO Slave...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery is not dead: it’s not even pastCommemorating slavery is popular in Europe and the Americas these days, but the living legacies of slavery remain...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryL’abolitionnisme de l’esclavage au prisme du passé/présentLa lutte contre l’esclavage dit « moderne » apparaît souvent comme un héritage de l’abolitionnisme des siècles...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDifferent times, same weaknesses: abolitionism past and presentActivism against so-called 'modern slavery' often appears to descend from the abolitionism of previous centuries....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery'Not made by slaves': the ambivalent origins of ethical consumptionEthical consumption is seen as a way of combating the evils found in global supply chains, yet its ambivalent track...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe legacies of slavery in southern SenegalThe history of slavery and the slave trade shape contemporary patterns of vulnerability and exclusion in Southern...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-traffickingThe US government is using anti-human trafficking laws to intensify the surveillance and criminalisation of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking movements and journalism: who sets the agenda?Many have criticised the media for their sensationalist reporting on sex trafficking. But few realise the extent to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBigger than the World Cup: state-sponsored human trafficking in the Gulf statesRecent attention to the plight of migrant workers in Qatar is welcome, but the problems of trafficking and forced...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlaves of the state: American prison labour past and presentWe know that corporations are drawn to prisoners because they constitute a source of cheap and reliable labour. But...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe everyday gender inequalities that underpin wartime atrocitiesThe contemporary enslavement of women, and sexual violence inflicted on them in times of war, are rooted in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryUsing US prison labour to make crime payUnder the guise of ‘prisoner rehabilitation,’ US prison-made products are silently infiltrating consumer markets and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe ‘new abolitionists’ and the problem of race‘New abolitionists’ have failed to engage with the history and legacies of slavery and racism. They must learn more...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe use and abuse of history: slavery and its contemporary legaciesBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their issue 'On History', which challenges the superficial...
