Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Abused, Blamed, and Refused: Protection Denied to Women and Children Trafficked Over the U.S. Southern Border (Refugees International, May 2019) [text]

Critical Insights on Irregular Migration Facilitation: Global Perspectives (European University Institute, 2019) [open access]
- "In this short collection of essays, a group of scholars and practitioners sheds light on the experiences of the men, women and children who around the world work in the facilitation of migrant’s journeys–a practice that has been legally and often narrowly termed migrant smuggling. Relying on ethnographic work, archival research, and conceptual analyses, authors challenge the monolithic perceptions of smuggling as merely exploitative, inherently criminal, violent and male, by documenting the experiences of the people whose actions facilitate migration into Europe and the United States, across Africa, the Americas and the Pacific, and shedding light on everyday practices and interactions of mobility and their criminalization by the state."

How UK Asylum System Creates Perfect Conditions for Modern Slavery and Exploitation to Thrive (The Conversation, April 2019) [text]

The Human Conveyor Belt Broken: Assessing the Collapse of the Human-smuggling Industry in Libya and the Central Sahel (Global Initiative, April 2019) [text]

Human Smuggling and Associated Revenues: What Do or Can We Know about Routes from Central America to the United States? (RAND, April 2019) [text]
- See also related Quartz article.

"Identifying Trafficked Migrants and Refugees Along the Balkan Route: Exploring the Boundaries of Exploitation, Vulnerability and Risk," Crime, Law and Social Change, Latest Articles, 18 May 2019 [open access]

Multilateral Peace Operations and the Challenges of Irregular Migration and Human Trafficking (SIPRI, June 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

Players of Many Parts: The Evolving Role of Smugglers in West Africa’s Migration Economy (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Social Embeddedness of Human Smuggling in East Africa: Brokering Ethiopian Migration to Sudan," African Human Mobility Review, vol. 4, no. 3 (Sept.-Dec. 2018) [full-text]

"Sold like fish": Crimes against Humanity, Mass Graves, and Human Trafficking from Myanmar and Bangladesh to Malaysia from 2012 to 2015 (Fortify Rights, March 2019) [text via ReliefWeb]

The Strength to Carry On: Resilience and Vulnerability to Trafficking and Other Abuses among People Travelling along Migration Routes to Europe (ICMPD, March 2019) [text]

Trafficking in Persons Report 2019 (U.S. Dept. of State, June 2019) [access]
- The introduction focuses on "The National Nature of Human Trafficking: Strengthening Government Responses and Dispelling Misperceptions."

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (22 March 2019)

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