21 January 2021

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

Child-trafficking in Mali increasing because of conflict and COVID-19 (UNHCR, Dec. 2020) [text]

Trafficked adult males and their recognition as members of a particular social group in the United Kingdom’s Upper Tribunal (RLI Blog, Nov. 2020) [text]

Reports:

Aftershock: Abuse, exploitation & human trafficking in the wake of COVID-19 (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Algeria’s Migration Dilemma: Migration and Human Smuggling in Southern Algeria (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, Dec. 2020) [text]
- See also related webinar recording.

General Recommendation No. 38 (2020) on trafficking in women and girls in the context of global migration (CEDAW, Nov. 2020) [access]

Incarcerating the Marginalized: The Fight Against Alleged Smugglers on the Greek Hotspot Islands (bordermonitoring.eu, borderline europe & Aegean Migrant Solidarity, Dec. 2020) [access]
- Follow link for English and German versions.

An Introductory Guide to Anti-Trafficking Action in Internal Displacement Contexts (Global Protection Cluster, Nov. 2020) [text via ReliefWeb]

Understanding EU action against migrant smuggling, Briefing (European Parliament, Jan. 2021) [text]

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 15 (2020) [open access]
- Special issue on "Everyday Abuse in the Global Economy," which "examines the driving forces behind the increasing prominence of precarious work, the accelerating role of migrant labour within global economy, and the relationship between everyday abuses and forms of severe exploitation which have come to be defined as human trafficking and modern slavery."

"Family Bonds: Kinship Reciprocity, Female Teenage Trafficking and Domestic Labor Exploitation in Peru," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 20 Nov. 2020 [free full-text]
- See also related RLI blog post.

“India’s Upcoming Anti-Trafficking Bill: Ambivalent to the Migration-Trafficking Nexus,” Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 9, no. 2 (Dec. 2020) [full-text]
- Scroll to p. 129.

Multimedia:

Human Trafficking in a Pandemic Landscape: Implications for Children and Forced Migrants, Webinar, 30 July 2020 [access]
- Posted 16 Nov. 2020; follow link for video recording.

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