24 July 2024

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Meeting:

2nd International Conference on Migrant Smuggling, Strasbourg, 10-11 September 2024 [info]
- Follow link for concept note.

Short pieces:

IOM and UNODC Join Forces to Tackle Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (IOM, July 2024) [text]

Reports:

Behind Closed Doors: A Storytelling Legal and Empirical Analysis of Human Trafficking Risks in Home Office Hotels Compared to Other Accommodation for Unaccompanied Children and Young People Seeking Asylum in the UK (ECPAT & UCL, July 2024) [access via EIN]

Local Perceptions and Experiences of Smuggling and Human Trafficking in Sudan: The case of North Darfur and Northern State of Sudan, Sudan Working Paper, no. 1 (Chr. Michelsen Institute, June 2024) [text]

Trafficking in persons, mixed migration and protection at sea, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/56/60 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]
- See also related press release.

Trafficking in Persons Report 2024 (US Dept. of State, June 2024) [access]
- The introduction focuses on "Exploring the Role and Impacts of Digital Technology on Human Trafficking." See also related articles in The Diplomat and RFE/RL.

Journal articles:

"Corruption and Bribery at the Border: Strategies of Survival and Adaptation between People Smugglers and Border Enforcement," ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [open access]
- "This study draws on extensive ethnographic research conducted on land routes between West Asia and Europe, interviewing smugglers specifically on the Syrian–Turkish border and the Evros border between Turkey, Greece, and Bulgaria."

"'Markets of Dispossession': How Unaccompanied Minors Navigate Their Criminalization in Lebanon,"  ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [free full-text]
- See also related blog post.

"Of Mukhalas and Magafe: Somali Migrants Navigating the Dangers of Ransom Smuggling in Northern Africa," ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 709, no. 1 (Sept. 2023) [open access]

"Responding to human trafficking among refugees: prevalence and test accuracy of a modified version of the adult human trafficking screening tool," BMC Public Health, 24:1685 (June 2024) [open access]
- Focuses on Germany.

"La trata de seres humanos con fines de explotaciĆ³n sexualen el marco del derecho de asilo europeo y espaƱol," Cuadernos de Derecho Transnacional, vol. 16, no. 1 (2024) [full-text]

"New War, Same Battle? Conflict-Related Human Trafficking in the Context of the War in Ukraine," Journal of Illicit Economies and Development, vol. 6, no. 2 (2024) [open access]

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