Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunity:

CFP: Anti-Trafficking Review [info]

- Contributions sought for a special issue on "Armed Conflicts: Migration, Trafficking, and Labour Markets." Submission deadline is 1 June 2023.

Short pieces:

A Change in the Criminalisation of Asylum Seekers? (Border Criminologies Blog, April 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Greece.

The ‘Criminal’ People Smuggler and the Illegalisation of Refugee Flight (History Workshop, March 2023) [text]

- Focuses on the UK.

Reports & journal articles:

*Evolving Patterns, Unchanged Suffering: Rohingya Trafficking Trends in 2022 (COAR, DRC & DSP, Dec. 2022) [text via ReliefWeb]

Human rights in the context of smuggling: Perceptions and experiences of migrants in Mali and Niger (Mixed Migration Centre, April 2023) [text]

Identifying and supporting victims of human trafficking in the asylum procedure, Situational Update, no. 17 (EU Agency for Asylum, March 2023) [text]

Maritime People Smuggling and Its Intersection with Human Trafficking in South and South East Asia: Trends and Issues (Global Initiative, March 2023) [text]

No Escape: Assessing the relationship between slavery-related abuse and internal displacement in Nigeria, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (IOM, Feb. 2023) [text]

"Preventing Trafficking by Protecting Refugees," Utah Law Review, no. 3 (2023) [full-text]

- Focuses on the US.

Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children (OHCHR, 2023) [access]

- Input was sought for the Special Rapporteur's forthcoming report that will focus on "the access to international protection of victims of trafficking in persons or persons at risk of trafficking." Follow link to read the submissions that were received.

"Seizing stateless smuggling vessels on the Mediterranean High Seas," Leiden Journal of International Law, First View, 28 April 2023 [open access]

"The Trump era and counter migrant smuggling: a new geopolitical order on the US–Mexico borders?," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Latest Articles, 21 Feb. 2023 [preprint]

Vying for Work: Risk Factors, Push Factors, and Human Trafficking (USCRI, March 2023) [text]

- Focuses on Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Multimedia:

Protecting Victims of Trafficking from Immigration Detention, 25 April 2023 [access]

- Follow link for presentations and video recording.

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Related posts:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 1 (29 March 2023)

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling - Pt. 2 (29 March 2023)