20 July 2022

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

Albanese government mobilises diplomacy and aid in effort to counter Sri Lanka people smugglers (The Conversation, June 2022) [text]

Chasing the Smugglers Out: Why the “Whole-of-route” Will Not Address EU-bound Irregular Migration (MPC Blog, June 2022) [text]

*Debunking the myth of the ‘evil people smuggler’ (The Conversation, July 2022) [text]

Expanding Evidence Base on Child Labour, Forced Labour, and Human Trafficking (IOM, June 2022) [text]

The Future of Counter-Smuggling (MPC Blog, July 2022) [text]

"Refugees at risk: UN uncovers human trafficking at camp in Malawi," UN News, 12 June 2022 [text]

"Slave Markets Open 24/7: Refugee Babies, Boys, Girls, Women, Men…," IPS News, 17 June 2022 [text]

The violent, hopeful world of children who smuggle people (openDemocracy, May 2022) [access]
- Focuses on the US-Mexico border.

Reports:

"The Danger of a Single Story: The Migrant Smuggling Narrative," Chapter in Towards Sustainable and Mutually-beneficial Migration Partnerships in the South Mediterranean (IEMed & ICMPD, April 2022) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 74.

Exploitation and Abuse: The Scale and Scope of Human Trafficking in South Eastern Europe (UNODC, May 2022) [text]

Mapping Rohingya Movement: Collected Data on the Trafficking Routes of a Persecuted Population (Freedom Collaborative, March 2022) [text]

Modern Slavery and Migrant Smuggling: A Sustainable Development Conundrum, Working Paper, no. 13 (Jean Monnet Network on EU Law Enforcement, 2022) [text]

Third-country national victims of trafficking in human beings: detection, identification and protection (European Migration Network, March 2022) [access]
- Follow link for final synthesis report and individual country reports.

Journal articles:

"An analysis of the causes and contributing factors to human trafficking: A South African perspective," Cogent Social Sciences, vol. 8, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Child trafficking and child smuggling in Zimbabwe: legislation and policy gaps," African Journal of Social Work, vol. 12, no. 1 (2022) [open access]

"Filling the Gap Between the T-Visa and Asylum Law: A Call to Expand the T-Visa to Cover Extraterritorial Trafficking," Public Interest Law Journal, vol. 31, no. 2 (2022) [full-text]
- Focuses on the US.

"Migration, Trafficking, and the Greek Economy: A comment on ‘the trafficker next-door’," Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 18 (2022) [open access]

"Protecting Trafficked Persons through Refugee Protection," Social Sciences, vol. 11, no. 7 (July 2022) [open access]
- Part of a special issue on "Exploring the Interface between Human Trafficking, “Modern Slavery” and Asylum."

"'Protection' on my own terms: human smuggling and unaccompanied Syrian minors," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Latest Articles, 22 June 2022 [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 12 Dec. 2023.

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