11 July 2023

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Reports & short pieces:

Climate Change, Mobility and Human Trafficking in Ethiopia: Getting the relationship right (Danish Institute for International Studies, May 2023) [text]

From Evidence to Action: Twenty years of IOM child trafficking data to inform policy and programming (IOM & Harvard University, July 2023) [text]

Global Slavery Index 2023 (Walk Free Foundation, June 2023) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related DW article.

Human smuggling and trafficking ecosystems in North Africa and the Sahel (Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime, 2023) [access]
- "The 2023 series follows the rebounding importance of smuggling from and through Libya, Tunisia, Morocco, Niger, Chad and Mali and the ways in which dynamics play out differently in the individual countries in focus, as the global economic picture worsens, governance strains become more pronounced, and peace and security challenges rise." Currently, the reports on Chad, Mali and Tunisia are available.

Refugee protection, internal displacement and statelessness: Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/53/28 (UN Human Rights Council, July 2023) [text via Refworld]
- See also related press release and discussion.

Rohingya in Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand: Refugee protection, human smuggling and trafficking (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2023) [text]

Surviving Statelessness and Trafficking: A Rohingya Case Study of Intersections and Policy Gaps (Institute of Statelessness and Inclusion et al., June 2023) [text]

Use of smugglers on the journey to Indonesia among Rohingya, Afghan and Somali refugees (Mixed Migration Centre, July 2023) [text]

What everyone gets wrong about the U Visa (Niskanen Center Commentary, June 2023) [text]
- Focuses on the US.

Journal articles & book chapters:

"Enabling and Supporting Irregular Migration," Chapter in Irregular Migration: IMISCOE Short Reader (Springer, May 2023) [open access]

"'Protection' on my own terms: human smuggling and unaccompanied Syrian minors," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, vol. 49, no. 13 (2023) [postprint]
- Note: Access to the full-text is embargoed until 22 Dec. 2023.

"Trafficked Adult Males as (Un)Gendered Protection Seekers: Between Presumption of Invulnerability and Exclusion from Membership of a Particular Social Group," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 34, nos. 3-4 (Oct.-Dec. 2022) [free full-text]

"El tráfico de migrantes internacionales en México: diferencias entre pollero, coyote y traficante de migrantes," Región y sociedad, vol. 35 (2023) [open access]

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