04 February 2023

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Blog posts & press:

Modern slavery: UK’s focus on ‘genuine’ victims has failed survivors since the 1800s (The Conversation, Dec. 2022) [text]

Strengthening the Evidence Base on Trafficking in Persons (IOM Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]

T Nonimmigrant Visas: An Opportunity to Provide a Path Forward (Think Immigration Blog, Jan. 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Books:

Enslaved - Trapped and Trafficked in Digital Black Holes: Human Trafficking Trajectories to Libya
 (Langaa Research & Publishing, Jan. 2023) [full-text]
- Note: Individual book chapters can also be accessed via the publisher. This title is the fifth volume in the "Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa" book series. Previous volumes can be accessed as follows: 

Global Report on Trafficking in Persons 2022 (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Jan. 2023) [access]
- "This edition of the Global Report provides a snapshot of the trafficking patterns and flows detected during the COVID-19 pandemic. It covers 141 countries and provides an overview of the response to the trafficking in persons at global, regional and national levels, by analysing trafficking cases detected between 2018 and 2021. A major focus of this edition of the Report is on trends of detections and convictions that show important changes compared to historical trends since UNODC started to collect data in 2003."

Reports:

Conflict in Ukraine: Key Evidence on Risks of Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants (UNODC, updated Dec. 2022) [text]

Refugee protection, human smuggling, and trafficking in Bangladesh and Southeast Asia (ADSP. DRC, JRS & MMC, Oct. 2022; launched Jan. 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]

Rohingya refugees in Indonesia: a focus on smuggling, information, and financing (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2022) [text]

Journal articles:

Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, vol. 3, no. 2 (Dec. 2022) [contents]
- Includes a specific focus on the war in Ukraine. The editorial is freely available.

"Labor Recruitment and Human Trafficking: Analysis of a Global Trafficking Survivor Database," International Migration Review, OnlineFirst, 3 Jan. 2023 [open access]

"Niños víctimas de esclavitud moderna: una problemática ante la migración forzada de venezolanos," Revista Electrónica de Derecho Internacional Contemporáneo, vol. 5, no. 5 (2022) [open access]

"Offshoring and Outsourcing Anti-Smuggling Policy: Capacity Building and the Geopolitics of Migrant Smuggling," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 18 Jan. 2023 [open access]
- Focuses on Canada.

"Tráfico ilícito de migrantes: Una mirada desde el ordenamiento jurídico uruguayo e internacional," Revista Electrónica de Derecho Internacional Contemporáneo, vol. 5, no. 5 (2022) [open access]

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