15 July 2025

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Short pieces:

Tackling forced labour in Malaysia begins with re-examining its migration model (The Interpreter Blog, May 2025) [text]

Threat of enslavement hangs over reported plans to deport migrants from US to Libya (The Conversation, May 2025) [text]

Reports:  

At Risk Twice Over: Displacement and Human Trafficking in Southeast Asia (USCRI, April 2025) [text]

Criminalization of Smuggling of Migrants and Related Conduct: A Global Overview (UNODC, 2025) [text]

The Facilitation Proposal: assessing the EU’s response to the smuggling of migrants (Sieps, March 2025) [text]

Migrant domestic workers and trafficking in persons: prevention, rights protection and access to justice - Report of the Special Rapporteur on trafficking in persons, especially women and children, Siobhán Mullally, UN Doc. No. A/HRC/59/56 (UN Human Rights Council, April 2025) [access]

Smuggling dynamics en route to and within Türkiye: Insights from Afghans, Syrians & Pakistanis on their journeys (Mixed Migration Centre, June 2025) [text]

Victims of Human Trafficking in Asylum and Reception, Fact Sheet, no. 34 (EUAA, July 2025) [text]

Journal articles:

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, vol. 43, no. 3 (May 2025) [contents]
- Theme issue is "Contested Geographies of Trafficking Borders." Six of these articles are open access, including the introduction.

"Iranians' Unauthorized Mobility Projects to Europe: A Digital Ethnography of Smuggling and Solidarity," Partecipazione e Conflitto, vol. 18, no. 1 (2025) [open access]

"Petro-politics, Gender Violence and Human Trafficking in Nigeria’s Niger Delta Region," Migration Politics, 4:3 (2025) [open access]

"Re-framing European Union (EU)-United Kingdom (UK) Cooperation to Address Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling," Border Crossing, vol. 15, no. 3 (2025) [open access]

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