15 March 2021

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunities:

CFP: Social Sciences [info]
- Contributions are now being accepted for a special issue on "Exploring the Interface between Human Trafficking, 'Modern Slavery' and Asylum." 

Call for proposals: From Research to Action: Using Knowledge to Accelerate Progress in the Elimination of Child Labour and Forced Labour [info]
- Submit proposals by 16 April 2021.

Blog posts:

The Routine Detention of Survivors of Trafficking in the UK: The Perpetuation of Exploitation (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

The Tragic Paradox: Modern Day Slavery of International Migrants (Border Criminologies Blog, Feb. 2021) [text]

Unmasking the Human Smuggler (DIIS, Feb. 2021) [text]
- Follow link for interview with visiting scholar.

Who is a Trafficked Person? The Case of Shamima Begum suggests that ‘Ideal Victim’ Narratives persist, more than 20 years after the Adoption of the Palermo Protocol (RLI Blog, March 2021) [text]

Reports:

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2020
(UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Feb. 2021) [access]
- The fifth edition of this biennial report "covers 148 countries and provides an overview of patterns and flows of trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels" and includes four thematic chapters on socio-economic factors, child trafficking, forced labour, and internet technologies. 

An Overlooked Crisis: Trafficking and Sexual and Gender-based Violence against Displaced Women in Italy (Refugee Rights Europe, Jan. 2021) [text]

El Tráfico Ilícito de Migrantes en América Central y México en el Contexto de la COVID-19 (IOM, Feb. 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Journal articles: 

"Choosing a Smuggler: Decision-making Amongst Migrants Smuggled to Europe," European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Latest Articles, 27 July 2020 [open access]

"From 'Angels' to 'Vice Smugglers': The Criminalization of Sea Rescue NGOs in Italy," European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, Latest Articles, 9 Sept. 2020 [open access]

"In Their Own Words: Children and the Facilitation of Migrant Journeys on the U.S.-Mexico Border," Victims & Offenders: An International Journal of Evidence-based Research, Policy, and Practice, vol. 15, no. 3 (2020) [Academia]

"Refugee Trafficking in a Carceral Age: A Case Study of the Sinai Trafficking," Journal of Human Trafficking, Latest Articles, 25 Feb. 2021 [postprint]

“Simulating a Multi-agency Approach for the Protection of Trafficked Persons in Migration and Displacement Settings,” Journal of Human Trafficking, vol. 6, no. 2 (2020) [ResearchGate]

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