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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe role of labour market intermediaries in driving forced and unfree labourThere has been lots of talk about multinational corporations’ responsibility for fuelling forced labour. But what...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhat has forced labour to do with poverty?Income-based measures of poverty are unreliable for determining who is most vulnerable to forced labour. More...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroducing Beyond Slavery’s month on forced labour in the global political economyBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their February issue exploring the political economic contexts of...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryCan snowball sampling estimate human trafficking?Snowball sampling is a popular method of researching hidden populations, but its limitations make it the wrong...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe rhetoric and reality of ‘ending slavery in our lifetime’‘Modern-day abolitionists’ frame their activities as part of a shared global struggle, but there is no single...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryA guide to respectful reporting and writing on sex workJournalists and researchers writing about sex workers do long-lasting damage to their sources when they treat sex...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFeminism’s undeservedly bad reputation in anti-trafficking discourseThe strain of feminist thinking that promotes the rescue industry and the criminalisation of sex work springs from a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRescuing the market? Comparing Agustin’s ‘Sex at the margins’ and Bales’ ‘Understanding global slavery’‘Sex at the margins’ and ‘Understanding global slavery’ are, on the surface, markedly different treatments of modern...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryShilling fantasy as reality: a review of ‘Trade’ and ‘Holly’Movies glorifying the ‘rescue’ of sex workers by men posing as clients are erotic fantasies, not daringly realistic...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryDomestic sex trafficking and the punitive side of anti-trafficking protectionDespite efforts to automatically label teen and youth sex workers as ‘victims’ of trafficking, and thereby prevent...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHow big is the trafficking problem? The mysteries of quantificationWildly different numbers circulate about the number of trafficking victims and modern-day slaves. Victims are hard...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFrom HIV to trafficking: shifting frames for sex work in IndiaThe conflation of trafficking and prostitution in antitrafficking discourses not only frames all sex workers as...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryRasTafari and reparation timeRasTafari reject the clear-cut distinction between ‘old’ and ‘new’ slavery put forward by ‘white abolitionism’, as...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryModern slavery, child trafficking, and the rise of West African football academiesGhanaian football academies have been accused of exploiting talent and promoting trafficking in search of profit,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery‘Irish slaves’: the convenient mythThe conflation of indentured servitude with chattel slavery in the ‘Irish slaves’ narrative whitewashes history in...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryResidual causes: Wilberforce and forced labourWilliam Wilberforce is held up as a hero of the contemporary antislavery movement, but his legacy is tainted by his...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction to this week's theme: beyond popular representations of trafficking and slavery
Beyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryImmigration politics, slavery talk: the case for a class perspectiveThe UK Modern Slavery Bill, and UK politicians’ obsession with immigration, risk undermining political moves to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroduction: moving beyond popular representations of trafficking and slaveryBeyond Trafficking and Slavery editors introduce their first themed issue, which explores how slavery and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe white man’s burden revisitedThe war on trafficking is a contemporary imperialist move that involves ‘the West’ saving ‘the rest’, appearing as a...