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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOpen letter to Theresa May: recognise the UN International Decade for People of African DescentThe British government has admitted to having no plans to recognise the UN International Decade for People of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryConfronting the brutal reality: how to teach the legacy of transatlantic slaveryThe British curriculum sanitises the history of slavery by isolating it as an aberration of evil. Slavery built the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryBlack ‘archival’ pain: the blurring of Black pasts and a Black presentIncessant Black death across American ‘history’ reveals an open-ended archive of anti-Black state violence. Black...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCapitalist dispossession and new justifications of slaveryDiscussions of migration are becoming increasingly dystopian. Based upon either exclusion or exploitation, new...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryUndermining indigenous self-determination and land access in highland PeruWhile current neoliberal privatisation laws provide for protections to indigenous lands, no formal or informal...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTransforming ‘beasts into men’: colonialism, forced labour and racism in AfricaEuropean colonisers maintained their workforce with forced labour after slavery was abolished, claiming work would...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA master plan for Indigenous freedomAndrew Forrest, the founder of the Walk Free Foundation, has written a master plan for Indigenous freedom. But who...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWarehousing PalestineThe Israeli state ‘warehouses’ Palestinians in Gaza for many of the same reasons that the United States has...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy Roma migrateAlmost all central and east European Roma migrants to western Europe are not trafficked. They seek opportunities...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAdivasis in India: modern-day slaves or modern-day workers?India’s Adivasis often work in conditions commonly described as ‘modern-day slavery’, but they are not slaves. Their...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe hidden injuries of caste: south Indian tea workers and economic crisisEconomic crisis has pushed Indian tea workers to seek employment outside the plantations, forcing them to re-engage...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of slavery, racism and democracy in MauritaniaThe history of slavery is central to racism, activism and democracy in Mauritania. Much of what happens next will...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShades of white: gender, race, and slavery in the CaribbeanBoth whiteness and blackness were stratified along gendered lines in the colonial-era Caribbean. Many of the norms...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIs memory enough? Remembering the racial legacies of slavery in France todayFrance is the only European slave-trading nation to legally recognise slavery and the slave trade as crimes against...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRacism, citizenship and deportation in the United StatesUS immigration laws from 1996 are draconian on paper and racially discriminatory in practice. Immigration reform in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe mythology of racial democracy in BrazilBrazil’s government has taken important steps to combat racial inequalities over the past two decades....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery’s afterlife in the Euro-Mediterranean basinInvisible to even the most progressive Europeans, antiblackness is the foundation from which to understand the...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe present tense of (racial) slavery: the racial chattel logic of the US prisonThe US prison regime functions through a racial chattel logic. Its animating force is not economic exploitation but...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDon’t call it a comeback: racial slavery is not yet abolishedThe long and on-going history of black freedom struggle should remain the contemporary focal point and forum of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe political economy of personhoodMost humans have not been, and still are not, recognised as persons: gender and race remain prerequisites for...
