Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunity:

CFP: Forced Migration Review [info]
- Submissions sought for a themed issue on "Trafficking and Smuggling." Deadline is 17 February 2020.

Blog posts & press:

Do Not Dismiss the Voices of Returned Migrants: A Response to the IOM (openDemocracy, Dec. 2019) [text]
- Response to an earlier openDemocracy post, which was a response to this initial post: "What happens after victims of trafficking return to Nigeria?"

The European Chase for Saharan Smugglers (Privacy International, Jan. 2020) [text]

Fleeing Home: Refugees and Human Trafficking (CFR Blog, Dec. 2019) [text]

Government Immigration Policies are Harming Trafficking Survivors (The Hill, Jan. 2020) [text]
- Focus is on the U.S.

Taking on Traffickers at the World’s Largest Refugee Site (UNHCR, Dec. 2019) [text]
- Focus is on Rohingya in Bangladesh.

Why are Data on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants Important and Why Do We Need to Improve Them? (Migration Data Portal Blog, Jan. 2020) [text]

"Why Rohingya Women and Girls are Risking Dangerous Smuggling Routes," The New Humanitarian, 16 Jan. 2020 [text]

Reports & journal articles: 

"Ally or Exploiter? The Smuggler-Migrant Relationship is a Complex One," Migration Information Source, 5 Feb. 2020 [open access]

"The Elastic Meaning(s) of Human Trafficking," California Law Review, vol. 108 (2020) [full-text]

"In Their Own Words: Children and the Facilitation of Migrant Journeys on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Victims & Offenders, Latest Articles, 29 Jan. 2020 [ResearchGate]

Managing Trafficking in Northern Niger, Africa Report, no. 285 (International Crisis Group, Jan. 2020) [text]
- See also related CIPS blog post.

"A Researcher’s Visit to Italy: Human Trafficking and the Nigerian-Sicilian Mafias," African Sociological Review, vol. 23, no. 1 (2019) [open access]

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

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