Balkan borders dominoed shut last week, ostensibly to block ‘economic migrants’, and now only Syrians, Afghans and Iraqis may pass. Those trapped, however, have come too far to stay quiet.
The US State Department argues that imprisoning human traffickers protects vulnerable farmworkers, but misses the fact that migrant worker vulnerability stems from the precarious conditions the state itself creates.
The antislavery movement in the nineteenth century loosened the bonds of ownership in marriage, yet children remain closer to property than people due to their financial and physical dependence.
Mauritania’s anti-slavery movement is everything BTS implies it's not: ethnically diverse, grassroots, and historically aware. Those who suffer extreme oppression need the power academics can mobilise, not poorly-conceived criticism.
BTS turns one and begins a project on what the future could look like. Join us to explore utopian horizons, examples of ‘better practice’, and new ways of researching and representing exploitation.
Creatives without Borders explores the triangular history of Africa, Europe and America, discovering much that was hidden along the way.
The history of anti-slavery is replete with lessons, but those commonly cited by the new abolitionists are not the right ones.
The moral panic over child trafficking detracts from important questions about children and childhood, the state, and immigration. We worry about child trafficking, but what exactly is it?
A former prime minister of Jamaica calls David Cameron out for side-stepping calls for reparations and diminishing the continuing present of slavery in his address to Jamaica's parliament.
Roma are wrongly assumed to have a cultural predilection to move. Most Roma do not migrate, and many of their largest movements have been forced upon them.
Recently introduced anti-trafficking regulations in South Africa are doing more harm than good. This is because they have been driven by panic and international pressure, not evidence.
Women alleging rape in asylum claims are often considered not credible due to cultural and gender-based stereotypes. To be heard, and believed, they must position themselves as ‘appropriately’ vulnerable.
