Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunities:

Addressing Trafficking in Persons: A Joint Call for Practices with the Migration Network Hub [info]

- The Migrant Protection Platform and the Migration Network Hub "seek submissions of programmes and policies that are relevant to Objective 10 of the Global Compact for Migration (Prevent, combat and eradicate trafficking in persons in the context of international migration) and that address the...theme 'Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking'. Submit practices by 24 June 2024.

World Day Against Trafficking in Persons, 30 July 2024 [info]

- This year's theme is 'Leave No Child Behind in the Fight Against Human Trafficking'.

Reports: 

Between Hope and Hardship: Migration and work experiences of Ethiopian domestic workers in Jordan, Kuwait and Lebanon (New York Univ. & The Freedom Fund, May 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Following the money: Understanding the economics of human smuggling in Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Mixed Migration Centre, May 2024) [text]

Human smuggling and trafficking in North Africa and the Sahel: 2024 Series (Global Initiative, June 2024) [access]

- Country reports are available for Mali and Morocco, and reports are forthcoming for Libya, Tunisia, Niger, Chad and Sudan; a related webinar will be held on 25 June 2024.

Migrant smuggling to Europe: A two-sector model with directed search, ESSEC Working Paper, no. 2401 (SSRN, May 2024) [text]

Smuggling of Forced Migrants to Europe: A Matching Model, ESSEC Working Paper, no. 2309 (SSRN, Nov. 2023) [text]

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 22 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Armed Conflicts: Migration, Trafficking, and Labour Markets."

"Challenging Externalization by Means of Article 4 ECHR: Towards New Avenues of Litigation for Victims of Human Trafficking?," Netherlands International Law Review, vol. 71, no. 1 (May 2024) [open access]

"The Locus of Persecution Reconsidered: Risk of Re-Trafficking, Cumulative Harm, and Failure of State Protection," International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 35, no. 4 (Dec. 2023) [open access]

- This article examines "trafficking-based asylum claims from the United Kingdom and Germany and the relationship between future risk, harm, and State protection."

"Las redes mexicanas de tráfico humano frente al fenómeno caravanero," Migraciones, no. 60 (2024) [open access]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (29 April 2024)