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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFamilies in detentionThe United States uses the detention of families and unaccompanied minors as a method of deterring immigration. This...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Foreign criminals’ and victims of trafficking—fantasies, categories and controlCasting migrants and smugglers as 'victims and villains' allows states to play saviour and legitimates immigration...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySilencing the challenging voices of the global ‘subalterns’ in anti-trafficking discourse
Contemporary anti-trafficking discourses are powered by a series of gendered and racialised binaries that silence...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySafe migration as an emerging anti-trafficking agenda?Safe migration has become a way for anti-trafficking organisations to re-articulate how a concern with labour...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTwisting the 'lessons of history' to authorise unjustifiable violence: the Mediterranean crisisMore than 300 slavery and migration scholars respond to those advocating for military force against migrants...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe border spectacle of migrant ‘victimisation’There’s nothing self-evident about ‘illegal’ migration. When borders become a spectacle of migrant deaths,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIllegalised migrants and temporary foreign workers: the new international segmentation of labourLabour markets are segmented, and the vulnerability at the bottom underpins the stability and benefit at the top....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFascist legacies: Italy’s approach to mobility and mobile labourItaly abolished Mussolini-era laws restricting internal mobility in the 1960s, yet troubling continuities exist...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOvercoming space: mobility and historyMobility is integral to human life, but not all mobility is treated as equivalent. What happens to those who are...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryOn freedom and (im)mobility: how states create vulnerability by controlling human movementBeyond Slavery introduces its next issue on trafficking, smuggling and migration, arguing that mobility is central...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryServants of capitalismCapitalism has always depended on domestic servitude, which still persists today. So why have the women clothing,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryReparations are too confronting: let’s talk about 'modern-day slavery' insteadGovernments and activists in Europe and America invoke the immediacy of “modern-day slavery” to sidestep challenging...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA wall of silence around slavery
We must acknowledge slavery’s role in creating the modern world if we are to address its legacy. The UNESCO Slave...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery is not dead: it’s not even pastCommemorating slavery is popular in Europe and the Americas these days, but the living legacies of slavery remain...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryL’abolitionnisme de l’esclavage au prisme du passé/présentLa lutte contre l’esclavage dit « moderne » apparaît souvent comme un héritage de l’abolitionnisme des siècles...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDifferent times, same weaknesses: abolitionism past and presentActivism against so-called 'modern slavery' often appears to descend from the abolitionism of previous centuries....
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery'Not made by slaves': the ambivalent origins of ethical consumptionEthical consumption is seen as a way of combating the evils found in global supply chains, yet its ambivalent track...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe legacies of slavery in southern SenegalThe history of slavery and the slave trade shape contemporary patterns of vulnerability and exclusion in Southern...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySexual surveillance and moral quarantines: a history of anti-traffickingThe US government is using anti-human trafficking laws to intensify the surveillance and criminalisation of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryAnti-trafficking movements and journalism: who sets the agenda?Many have criticised the media for their sensationalist reporting on sex trafficking. But few realise the extent to...