Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

'Migrants for sale': An investigation into the clandestine migrant smuggling economy on the Mediterranean route (InfoMigrants, Sept. 2024) 

- Five-part series: Part 1; Part 2; Part 3; Part 4; Part 5.

Reports:

Corruption, Human Trafficking and UK Borders, CSC Working Paper, no. 19 (Univ. of Sussex, Sept. 2024) [text]

- See also Part 1 and Part 2 of a related blog post.

Linkages Between Trafficking, Smuggling, Labour and Migration Policy Regimes: Socioeconomic Implications for Women Migrant Workers (IOM, 2024) [text]

- Focuses on Côte d’Ivoire, Egypt, Morocco, Senegal, Sudan and Tunisia.

No identity, no protection: How lack of documentation drives modern slavery (UNU & The Freedom Fund, Sept. 2024) [text via ReliefWeb]

Vulnerability and resilience to exploitation and trafficking among people fleeing Ukraine in Berlin, Bern and Warsaw (Mixed Migration Centre, Sept. 2024) [text]

Vulnerability to trafficking in persons in the context of the war in Ukraine (IOM, UNHCR & UNODC, Sept. 2024) [access]

- Focuses on Poland and Romania.

A Year in Review: Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling Section (UNODC, 2024) [text]

Journal articles:

Anti-Trafficking Review, no. 23 (2024) [open access]

- Special issue on "Following the Money II."

"Toward effective protection of victims of human trafficking in mixed migration flows: referral mechanisms shaped on individual need - The Italian experience and the European perspective," Frontiers in Human Dynamics, 1 Oct. 2024 [open access]

"Turkey Aims to Halt Irregular Migration and Migrant Smuggling in the Eastern Mediterranean," Migration Information Source, 27 Aug. 2024 [text]

Related post:

- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (26 Aug. 2024)