28 October 2020

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts:

Crossfire and Criminal Cases: How Bangladesh’s Counter-trafficking Actions Changed the Game for Migrants and Refugees in Southeast Asia (Kaldor Centre, Aug. 2020) [text]

Trafficking in Rohingya Women: The ASEAN Perspective (Kaldor Centre, Aug. 2020) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

*"The Collateral Damage of the War on Smugglers along the Central Mediterranean Route," Chapter 31 in Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: Trends, Risks, Development and Governance (IOM, Sept. 2020) [full-text]

"Cuando las Personas se Vuelven 'Mercancías': Respuestas Jurídicas para Luchar a Favor de las Víctimas y Contra las Mafias que Trafican en el Mediterráneo," Oñati Socio-Legal Series, vol. 10, no. 4 (2020) [open access]

Flawed Design: How the U Visa is Revictimizing the People It was Created to Help (Southern Methodist University, Oct. 2020) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

"How Useful is the Concept of Transit Migration in an Intra-Schengen Mobility Context? Diving into the Migrant Smuggling and Human Trafficking Nexus in Search for Answers," European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Latest Articles, 11 Oct. 2020 [open access]

*Impact of COVID-19 on Human Trafficking in Uganda (Irish Centre for Human Rights & Refugee Law Project, July 2020; posted Oct. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Smuggling, COVID-19 Global Thematic Update, no. 1 (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2020) [text]

Interlinkages between Trafficking in Persons and Marriage (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Oct. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

"Migrant Smuggling in the Libyan Context: Re-examining the Evidence," Chapter 18 in Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: Trends, Risks, Development and Governance (IOM, Sept. 2020) [full-text]

"Migration and Risks: Smuggling Networks and Dynamics on the Central Mediterranean Route," Chapter 17 in Migration in West and North Africa and across the Mediterranean: Trends, Risks, Development and Governance (IOM, Sept. 2020) [full-text]

"New Forms of Collaborative Lawyering and Story Construction in the Field of International Protection: Cases of Victims of Human Trafficking," Migration Letters, vol. 17, no. 2 (2020) [free full-text]
- Focuses on Italy.

Trafficking in Persons in South Sudan: Prevalence, Challenges and Responses (IOM & Govt. of South Sudan, Aug. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Multimedia:

Human Smuggling in an Age of Pandemic, 21 Oct. 2020 [info]
- Follow link for podcast.

Protecting Victims of Trafficking, 14 Sept. 2020 [info]
- Follow link for concept note, recording and report of the session.

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