20 March 2025

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Addressing Internal Displacement Resulting from Organised Criminal Activity: What Role for the International Anti-trafficking Framework? (Researching Internal Displacement, Feb. 2025) [text]
- Fourth contribution in a series on "Internal Displacement in the Context of Organised Criminal Violence."

How conflict in Libya facilitated transnational expansion of migrant smuggling and trafficking (Chatham House Explainer, Feb. 2025) [text]

Reports & journal articles:

Beyond restrictions: migration & smuggling across the Mediterranean, the Atlantic & the English Channel (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

"The Convenient Villain and the Stereotypical Victim: How Demand and Vulnerability Help Construct Anti-Policies in Trafficking and Smuggling," Journal on Migration and Human Security, OnlineFirst, 25 Feb. 2025 [open access]
- Focuses on Europe.

"Hidden in Plain Sight: Japan’s Dying Labor Force and the Human Trafficking Issues That Come With It," George Washington International Law Review, vol. 56, nos. 1/2 (2025) [full-text]

How migrant smuggling has fuelled conflict in Libya: A systems analysis of key transit hubs (Chatham House, Feb. 2025) [text]

The role of smuggling in shaping migrants’ journeys, finances and risks in the Central Sahel (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [access]
- Focuses on Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger. Available in English and French. See also related snapshot.

Smuggling and migration in South America: Insights from migrants (Mixed Migration Centre, March 2025) [text]

Study on Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants in the Context of the Displacement caused by the War in Ukraine (UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Feb. 2025) [access]
- Available in English and Ukrainian. See also related press release and Eurasia Review article.

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