Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed 'Corporate Accountability and Forced Labour in Value Chains'.
Read more about Call for Papers: 'Corporate Accountability and Forced Labour in Value Chains'The new special issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores where the money for anti-trafficking work comes from, goes to, and what it achieves.
Read more about Publication of issue 23 'Following the Money II'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed ‘Climate Change and Work on a Heated Planet’.
Read more about Call for Papers: ‘Climate Change and Work on a Heated Planet’The new Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review examines the links between armed conflicts and human trafficking, forced displacement, and exploitation.
Read more about Publication of issue 22 'Armed Conflicts: Migration, Trafficking, and Labour Markets'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed ‘Family and community’.
Read more about Call for Papers: 'Family and Community'This Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the lives of low-wage, migrant, and informal workers.
Read more about Publication of issue 21 'COVID-19: Labour, Migration, and Exploitation'This special issue of Anti-Trafficking Review discusses the links between housing and homelessness, on the one hand, and migration, trafficking, and exploitation, on the other.
Read more about Publication of issue 20 'Home and Homelessness'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a special issue themed 'Following the Money II'. The aim of this special issue is to analyse the funding preferences and practices of major donors and their impacts on grant recipients and the communities they are supposed to benefit.
Read more about Call for papers: 'Following the Money II'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed ‘Armed Conflicts: Migration, Trafficking, and Labour Markets’.
Read more about Call for Papers: 'Armed Conflicts: Migration, Trafficking, and Labour Markets'This Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review discusses the experiences of LGBTI+ people with migration, informal labour, exploitation, asylum, and community-building away from home.
Read more about Publication of issue 19 'Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a special issue themed 'COVID-19: Labour, Migration, and Exploitation'
Read more about Call for Papers: 'COVID-19: Labour, Migration, and Exploitation'The new special issue of Anti-Trafficking Review examines the characteristics, motivations, and modus operandi of traffickers, their relationship with victims, their treatment in the criminal justice system, and more.
Read more about Publication of issue 18, ‘Traffickers’Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed 'Home and Homelessness'. Deadline for submissions: 1 July 2022.
Read more about Call for papers: 'Home and Homelessness'The new Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review analyses the states and stakes of anti-trafficking education.
Read more about Publication of issue 17, ‘Anti-Trafficking Education’Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed ‘Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity’.
This special issue will bridge the fields of queer, migration, and critical trafficking studies in order to address the intersections and imbrications of transactional sex, LGBTQI+ identities and politics, and discourses of migration and human trafficking.
Read more about Call for Papers: Migration, Sexuality, and Gender IdentityThe new Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores the phenomenon of child trafficking in a number of contexts and from a variety of perspectives...
Read more about Publication of Issue 16 'Trafficking in Minors'Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a Special Issue themed 'Traffickers'. We invite scholars, activists, criminologists, practitioners, survivors of trafficking, and people who have been charged with human trafficking offences, to share their insights on who traffickers are, the factors that lead them to become criminal actors, their experiences in criminal justice processes and systems, the sentences imposed on them, their rehabilitation or recidivism, and more.
Read more about Call for Papers: TraffickersThis new Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review examines the driving forces behind the increasing prominence of precarious work, the accelerating role of migrant labour within global economic systems, and the political relationship between everyday abuses and forms of severe exploitation.
Read more about Publication of Issue 15, 'Everyday Abuse in the Global Economy'The Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a special issue themed ‘Anti-Trafficking Education: Pedagogy, Policy, and Activism’. This special issue of Anti-Trafficking Review invites scholars, activists, practitioners, survivors, and others involved in anti-trafficking education to evaluate and share how they disseminate knowledge about trafficking. In addition to generating much-needed assessments of anti-trafficking pedagogical practices, the special issue will consider how anti-trafficking education is a growing field where facts, truths, lessons, and approved interventions become established.
Read more about Call for papers: Anti-Trafficking Education: Pedagogy, Policy, and ActivismThe new issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores the assumptions about the role of technology in faciliating and preventing human trafficking and exploitation and the currently available technological tools that purport to serve this purpose.
Read more about Between Hope and Hype: Critical evaluations of technology’s role in anti-traffickingDeadline for Submissions: 1 June 2020
The Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a special issue themed ‘Trafficking in Minors’. Public and political debate on the phenomenon of child trafficking is generally deplete with emotional reactions, unverifiable statistics, and sensational ‘high profile’ cases repeated over and over again in the media. Despite an intense focus placed on children and minors in human trafficking representations, policies and measures, academic work on the issue is scattered across disciplines, and disproportionally focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation. Less work is done on other forms such as forced labour, forced begging and, in particular, exploitation of criminal activities. Moreover both concepts of ‘child trafficking’ and ‘exploitation’ are coloured by moral, emotional and/or ideological notions and dominant cultural constructions of childhood, (im)maturity, (un)acceptable labour, and choice and consent.
Read more about Call for papers: Trafficking in MinorsThe new issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review reflects the growing unease and disagreements among anti-trafficking practitioners and scholars about the current state of public awareness of human trafficking: how and by whom such awareness is produced and manipulated, whom it is targeting, and whether it leads, or can lead, to any meaningful anti-trafficking action.
Read more about Knowledge is Power, Ignorance is BlissDespite the growing body of academic and community-based literature on sex workers’ lives and work, the discourses, laws, and policies that impact sex workers are continually changing, and critical perspectives are constantly needed. Therefore, this Special Issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review examines some of the current achievements – and challenges – of the global sex worker rights movement.
Read more about Gains and Challenges in the Global Movement for Sex Workers’ RightsThe Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a special issue themed 'Technology, Anti-Trafficking, and Speculative Futures'.
In the last decade, scholars, activists, and policymakers have repeatedly called for an examination of the role of technology as a contributing force to human trafficking and labour exploitation. In the dominant anti-trafficking imaginary, traffickers are presumed to be tech-savvy exploiters, contrasted with victims assumed to be at heightened risk of violence and harm because of technological manipulation.
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International migration has become a ‘mega trend’ of our times, with more than 260 million migrants living outside their country of origin in 2017. Some people move in search of better livelihood opportunities, others flee conflict, environmental degradation or natural disasters, and yet others are deceived or coerced into exploitative work. At the same time, the categories developed by the international community for people on the move—such as smuggled migrants, refugees, or trafficked persons—are increasingly inadequate to capture today’s complex migration flows. Yet the label that a person is given by authorities can mean the difference between assistance and protection, or arrest and deportation.
Read more about Categorising Migrants: Standards, complexities, and politicsThe Anti-Traffickig Review calls for paper for a special issue themed 'Public Perceptions and Responses to Human Trafficking'. The issue will aim to explore perceptions, knowledge (and ignorance) and responses of the general public vis-à-vis human trafficking and related exploitation. It will also discuss the diversity of anti-trafficking awareness-raising actions and their impact, and whether they can actually help reduce exploitation and human trafficking.
Read more about Call for Papers: Public Perceptions and Responses to Human TraffickingThe relationship between sex work and human trafficking remains one of the most contentious issues in both the sex worker rights and anti-trafficking worlds, and there is much community-based and academic literature written on this topic. While the arguments often appear at an impasse, there have been several important developments in recent years.
Read more about Sex Work - Anti-Trafficking Review call for papersDeadline 9 July 2017
Media, policymakers and NGOs typically focus on the horrors of life in trafficking and ‘rescuing’ trafficked persons, but much less attention is paid to life after trafficking. Social workers, attorneys, service providers and trafficked persons know all too well the poverty and legal limbo that many experience after exiting a situation of exploitation. The idyllic picture of life after trafficking is that of survivors being returned home and reunited with their family, despite the fact that familial conflicts and lack of opportunities might have pushed them to leave in the first place. While some states offer legal and social assistance, others deport trafficked migrants or coerce them into shelters or ‘rehabilitation centres’ where they languish for months or years. Reintegration and ‘life skills training’ programmes are often patronising, inadequate to local labour markets and cannot ensure a living wage. Nearly all trafficked persons are left high and dry when it comes to economic assistance and compensation. Yet these ‘unsexy’ aspects of trafficking go unreported in the media and unchampioned by politicians.
Read more about Life after Trafficking – Anti-Trafficking Review Call for PapersLaunch of Issue 7 of the Anti-Trafficking Review 'Trafficking Representations
Representations of human trafficking, forced labour and 'modern slavery' are pervasive within media, policymaking, and humanitarian interventions and campaigns. This issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review explores the ways in which some representations erase the complexity in the life trajectories of people who have experienced trafficking, as well as those who are migrants, women, sex workers and others labelled as victims or 'at-risk' of trafficking.
Read more about The Recurring Appeal of Simplistic Victimhood and Slavery Images: What are the harms? What are the alternatives?Deadline for Submission: 8 January 2016
The Anti-Trafficking Review calls for papers for a themed issue entitled ‘Trafficking Representations.’ Work that migrants do in the sex industry and other irregular employment sectors is increasingly characterised as exploitation and trafficking. Representations of trafficking and forced labour are pervasive within media, policymaking, and humanitarian debates, discourses and interventions. Of late, the notion of ‘modern slavery’ is on show in campaigns aiming to raise funds and awareness about anti-trafficking among corporate and local enterprises and the general public. Celebrity interventions, militant documentaries, artistic works and fiction films have all become powerful vectors of distribution of the trafficking and ‘modern slavery’ rhetoric. These offer simplistic solutions to complex issues without challenging the structural and causal factors of inequality. They also tend to entrench racialised narratives; present a narrow depiction of an ‘authentic victim;’ and confuse sex work with trafficking. Such representations play a key role in legitimising oftentimes problematic rescue operations that can involve criminalisation, detention and arrest of both non-trafficked and trafficked persons as well a justifying restrictive labour and migration laws that exacerbate migrants’ precarious living and work situations.
The year 2015 marks the 15th anniversary of the UN Protocol to Prevent, Suppress, and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children. Is this a time to celebrate progress or has the Protocol caused more problems than it has solved?
Issue 4 of the Anti-Trafficking Review takes stock of the impact of the Trafficking Protocol. This issue presents thoughtful, innovative and well-researched articles by a range of academics, experts and practitioners that address critical questions on this landmark piece of legislation.
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