The long and on-going history of black freedom struggle should remain the contemporary focal point and forum of political demands for global justice.
Plus de 300 universitaires spécialistes des migrations et de l’esclavage répondent à ceux qui défendent l’utilisation des forces militaires contre les migrants qui essayent de traverser la Méditerranée. Il ne s’agit pas de trafic d’esclaves. Comment peut-on justifier moralement des actions entraîn
Most humans have not been, and still are not, recognised as persons: gender and race remain prerequisites for recognition as an individual.
Race is, ironically, an often-overlooked aspect of the modern slavery debate. BTS editors look critically at the field and introduce their next issue.
The free movement of people across international borders is a taboo in international political debates, making a thorough and much-needed rethinking of migration politics impossible. This must change.
The discretionary control that states exercise over immigration is unjust. People should normally be free to cross borders and live wherever they choose.
The EU response to the increasing number of migrant deaths in the Mediterranean Sea is riddled with falsity. Activists in touch with many of those attempting to cross respond.
Migrants in Morocco often attempt to cross the Mediterranean only after years of exploitation and exclusion. Their vulnerability is a product of EU policy and its preoccupation with ‘transit migration’.
North Koreans’ migration to China is highly complex, more so than when it is depicted simply as ‘human-trafficking’ and/or ‘modern slavery’ in anti-trafficking discourse.
Migrant domestic workers in the Middle East act as if they were already free when they resist the constraining kafala system by setting out on their own as freelancers.
Transatlantic slavery relied on force to move people, while today’s ‘trafficking’ does not. Vulnerable migrants have more in common with those escaping from historical slavery than those entering into it.
The question of mobility was central to struggles against the transatlantic slave trade and slavery. Current campaigns focus on the journey into slavery, overlooking the spatial captivity entailed in ‘modern slavery’.
