Short pieces:
At G7 in Italy, UNHCR’s Grandi emphasized the need to protect victims while
preventing exploitation by human traffickers (UNHCR, Oct. 2024) [text]
Double Edged Swords: The Role of Technology in Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling (NatCen International & Univ. of Westminster, Dec. 2024) [text]
The Exploitation of Refugees and Migrants Hidden Struggles Along Migration
Routes (UNICEF, Dec. 2024) [text]
- Focuses on Europe.
New open access volumes:
- "This edition of the Global Report provides a snapshot of the trafficking patterns and flows at global, regional and national levels. It covers 156 countries and provides an overview of the response to the trafficking in persons by analysing trafficking cases detected between 2019 and 2023. A major focus of this edition of the Report is on trends of detections and convictions that show the changes compared to historical trends since UNODC started to collect data in 2003, and following the Covid-19 Pandemic." See also related InfoMigrants post.
Taking Vulnerabilities to Labour Exploitation Seriously: A Critical
Analysis of Legal and Policy Approaches and Instruments in Europe
(Springer, Oct. 2024) [open access]
- "This open access book intends to contribute to the debate on migrant
labour exploitation by exploring the extent to which the EU and the European
countries provide a standard for protecting migrant workers. It moves from a
socio-legal and theoretical perspective and builds on critical studies on
vulnerability, exploitation, trafficking and migrant labour regimes – along
with relevant feminist theories, including theories on social reproduction –
while also drawing on extensive fieldwork. By mobilising the concept of
‘situational vulnerabilities’, the book critically investigates the
assemblage and interaction of factors creating and amplifying migrant
workers’ vulnerabilities to exploitation in the key sectors of agriculture
and domestic work. The aim is to highlight how situations of vulnerability
to exploitation are generated and exacerbated by relevant legal and policy
frameworks, underlining and questioning the tensions, continuities, and
ambiguities between different regimes, such as the regimes regulating labour
migration and those intended to combat severe exploitation."
Reports:
Addressing documentation and modern slavery risks in Kenya: Key
recommendations and best practices (UNU & Freedom Fund, Oct. 2024) [access via ReliefWeb]
- Follow link for a policy brief as well as comics in English and Swahili "illustrating the challenges faced by people in Kenya as they navigate life without legal documents."
Child Trafficking and Armed Conflict (UN, Oct. 2024) [access]
Mixed migration in the Western Balkans: Shifting policies, smuggling
dynamics and risks (Mixed Migration Centre, Nov. 2024) [text]
Special Hearing Report on Understanding the Risks of Trafficking of
Children of Ukraine, including for the Purposes of Sexual and Labour
Exploitation (Council of Europe, Oct. 2024) [text via Refworld]
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