04 June 2021

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

The EU Pact on Migration and Asylum: A Missed Opportunity to Strengthen Protection against Human Trafficking? (Crossroads Europe, March 2021) [text]

The overcriminalisation of facilitation of illegal entry: the dangers of the symbolic application of criminal law to deter irregular migration (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

The Right to Remain for Victims of Modern Slavery (RLI Blog, May 2021) [text]
- Focuses on the UK.

"Traffickers seen thriving in Europe as COVID-19 hits victim support," Reuters, 9 April 2021 [text]

"UNODC and Malawi launch new measures to combat human trafficking among refugees," UNODC News, 31 March 2021 [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review
, vol. 16 (2021) [open access]
- Special issue on "Trafficking in Minors," with seven articles.

Applying gender-sensitive approaches in combating trafficking in human beings (Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, May 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

Conflict, Coping and Covid: Changing human smuggling and trafficking dynamics in North Africa and the Sahel in 2019 and 2020 (Global Initiative, April 2021) [access]
- Follow link for report and video recording of related webinar.

"Human vs. Feminist Security Approaches to Human Trafficking in the Mediterranean," E-International Relations, 5 May 2021 [full-text]

Human Trafficking: Definitions, Data, and Determinants, Policy Research Working Paper, no. 9623 (World Bank, April 2021) [text]

Smuggling dynamics for Afghans on the move toward Europe, 4Mi snapshot (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2021) [text]

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