Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Events: 

Seminar: Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered, London, 19 January 2016 [info]
- Presentation by Dr. Vladislava Stoyanova, who also authored the chapter on human trafficking victims referenced below.

Seminar: Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision in the Smuggling Cases, Toronto, 3 February 2016 [info]
- Note: The texts of the decisions are available via CCR.

Publications:


A Global Study of Human Trafficking Legislation: Causes and Effects, International Relations Honors Thesis (New York University, Spring 2015) [text]

Human Smuggling (Border Criminologies Blog, Nov. & Dec. 2015) [access]
- A themed series of six blog posts; follow link for the first one and access subsequent posts in the series via the "see also" sub-section on the right.

*"Scrutinising the Double Disadvantage: Knowledge Production in the Messy Field of Migrant Smuggling," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 30 Oct. 2015 [full-text via ResearchGate]

Smugglers are Least Bad Option for Border Returnees (IRIN, Dec. 2015) [text]

A Study on Smuggling of Migrants: Characteristics, Responses and Cooperation with Third Countries (European Commission & European Migration Network, Sept. 2015) [text via ICMPD]

Survive and Advance: The Economics of Smuggling Refugees and Migrants into Europe, ISS Paper, no. 289 (Institute for Security Studies & Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime, Nov. 2015) [text]

Top 10 of 2015 – Issue #4: Big Business of Smuggling Enables Mass Movement of People for Enormous Profits (Migration Information Source, Dec. 2015) [text]

"Victims of Human Trafficking in the Asylum Procedure: A Legal Analysis of the Guarantees for 'Vulnerable Persons' under the Second Generation of EU Asylum Legislation," Chapter 3 in Seeking Asylum in the European Union: Selected Protection Issues Raised by the Second Phase of the Common European Asylum System (Brill, 2015) [eprint via SSRN]

*UPDATED

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (12 Nov. 2015)

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