Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

‘Here we go again:’ Misleading European Union Communications on Human Smuggling (MPC Blog, June 2021) [text]

The New Plan for Immigration: Empty Measures Against Modern Slavery (RLI Blog, June 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Whose Evidence Counts? Problems in the Identification of Victims of Trafficking (RLI Blog, June 2021) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

Abused and Neglected: A Gender Perspective on Aggravated Migrant Smuggling and Response (UN Office of Drug on Drugs and Crime, June 2021) [text]

Countering human smuggling: No silver bullet for safer mobility - Evidence based recommendations towards a protection-sensitive approach to actions against human smuggling (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2021) [text]

- See also related press release.

Mixed migration and migrant smuggling in Libya: The role of non-Libyan smuggler intermediaries (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2021) [text]

"No rights, No Freedom: The Kafala system and the plight of African migrants in the Middle East," Journal of Arts and Social Sciences, vol. 18, no. 1 (April-June 2021) [open access]

- See also related CFR backgrounder.

"Physical health symptoms among Ethiopian returnees who were trafficked abroad," International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care, vol. 17, no. 2 (2021) [preprint]

Procedimiento operativo estándar para la protección y atención de personas refugiadas y migrantes frente a la trata de personas en contextos de asistencia humanitaria en la región Tumbes (CARE, IOM & R4V, June 2021) [text via ReliefWeb]

- Focuses on Peru.

Public Anthropologist, vol. 3, no. 1 (March 2021) [contents]

- Includes special section on "Migration, Smuggling and the Illicit Global Economy." The introduction is freely available.

Smuggling and mixed migration: Insights and key messages drawn from a decade of MMC research and 4Mi data collection (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2021) [text]

Trafficking in Persons Report 2021 (US Department of State, July 2021) [access]

- Includes a lengthy essay on "Human Trafficking in the Context of a Global Pandemic," as well as a number of shorter analyses of special interest topics.

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (4 June 2021)