Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunity:

CFP: Social Sciences [info]

- Contributions sought for special issue on "Exploring the Interface between Human Trafficking, 'Modern Slavery' and Asylum." Submission deadline is 28 February 2022.

New Open Access book:

The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling (Routledge, Dec. 2021) [open access]

- "[A] comprehensive survey of interdisciplinary research related to smuggling, reflecting on key themes, and charting current and future trends. Divided into six parts and spanning over 30 chapters, the volume covers themes such as mobility, borders, violent conflict, and state politics, as well as looks at the smuggling of specific goods... . Chapters engage with some of the most contentious academic and policy debates of the twenty-first century, including the historical creation of borders, re-bordering, the criminalisation of migration, and the politics of selective toleration of smuggling. As it maps a field that contains unique methodological, ethical, and risk-related challenges, the book takes stock not only of the state of our shared knowledge, but also reflects on how this has been produced, pointing to blind spots and providing an informed vision of the future of the field." See esp. Part IV, "Smuggling and mobility," with four chapters.

Reports:

Combating Forced and Child Labor of Refugees in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Responsible Sourcing (TENT & Verité, Oct. 2021) [text]

Corruption and the role of state officials in human smuggling (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2021) [text]

- Focuses on West & North Africa.

COVID-19 and the Smuggling of Migrants (UNODC, 2021) [text]

- Also available in French and Spanish.

Migrant Smuggling: Background and Selected Issues (Congressional Research Service, Dec. 2021) [text]

Smuggling, Risks, and Abuses (Mixed Migration Centre, Oct. 2021)

- Part 1: Dangerous locations and perpetrators

- Part 2: Characteristics of respondents and the perception of smugglers as perpetrators

- Part 3: Smuggler services and links to abuses

- Focus is on West & North Africa.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Coyotes, migrants, terrorists and narcos: migrant smuggling narratives on the US-Mexico border and the data that counters them," Chapter in Immigrants, Asylum Seekers and Refugees in Times of Crises: A. An International Handbook on Migration and Refugee Studies, Management Policies and Governance (European Public Law Organization, Dec. 2021) [Academia]

"Human Smuggling from Wollo, Ethiopia to Saudi Arabia: Askoblay Criminals or Enablers of Dreams?," Public Anthropologist, vol. 3, no. 1 (2021) [postprint]

"Tipología de cuerpos traficados desde América del Sur y el Caribe hacia Chile," Antípoda: Revista de Antropología y Arqueología, vol. 44 (2021) [open access]

Multimedia:

The Identification and Documentation of Trafficking in Persons in Situations of Forced Displacement, 29 July 2021 [access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (20 Sept. 2021)