Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunity:

CFP: "Multidisciplinary Perspectives on Human Trafficking from Research and Practice," Human Trafficking Research Network Conference, A Coruña, Spain, 20-21 June 2024 [info]

- Submit abstracts by 14 February 2024.

Short pieces:

Book Review: The Criminalisation of People Smuggling in Indonesia and Australia: Asylum Out of Reach (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

"From Ethiopia to South Africa: The human cost of a neglected migration route," The New Humanitarian, 22 Nov. 2023 [text]

Evidence and migrants’ voices: missing links in EU Global Alliance to Counter Migrant Smuggling (Mixed Migration Centre, Dec. 2023) [text]

"Human Trafficking, Gender, and Agency," IWMpost, no. 132 (2023) [text]

"Op-ed: Revising the EU Anti-Trafficking Revising the EU Anti-Trafficking directive: an opportunity to strengthen the rights of trafficked persons," ECRE Weekly Bulletin, 15 Dec. 2023 [text]

The persisting challenges of the new European Commission's smuggling directive proposal (Border Criminologies Blog, Jan. 2024) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

"Briser le mythe de la 'jungle qui tue': analyse du rôle des intermédiaires dans la traversée du Darién (frontière Colombie-Panama)," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 39, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

Global Human Smuggling: Buying Freedom in a Retreating World (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, Dec. 2023) [info]

- Access the introduction and a preprint of chapter 14: "Enter the Boogeyman: representations of human smuggling in mainstream narratives of migration."

"Histoires et récits du trafic de migrants: le soft power des passeurs djiboutiens," Revue Européenne des Migrations Internationales, vol. 39, no. 4 (2023) [open access]

The Human Rights of Refugees: Status Transition from Illegal Migrants to Asylum Seekers regarding the Suppression of Migrant Smuggling as a Transnational Crime, Paper presented at The Migration Conference 2023, Hamburg, 23-26 August 2023 [ResearchGate]

"Smuggling as a Material Critique of Borders," Geopolitics, Latest Articles, 2 Jan. 2024 [open access]

Use of smugglers on the journey to Thailand among Cambodians and Laotians (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2023) [text]

"Vulnerability to Exploitation through the Lens of Intersectionality: A Critical Analysis of Instruments and Approaches to Identify and Support Exploited and Trafficked Migrants Seeking Protection," European Journal of Migration and Law, vol. 25, no. 4 (2023) [open access] 

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- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (28 Oct. 2023)