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Questioning the Notion of Financial Gain as the Primary Motivation of Human Traffickers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Matthew Clarke
One common belief in the anti-trafficking field is that the primary motivation of traffickers is financial gain. This short paper describes recent examples of that belief among researchers and practitioners and suggests that it is not warranted by the available evidence. My intention is to stimulate conversation and to call for improved documentation and analysis of perpetrator motivations. I encourage
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Human Traffickers’ Fair Trial Rights and Transnational Criminal Law Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Thomas Harré
The right to a fair trial is enshrined in international and domestic law around the world. This article makes the simple argument that the focus on the rights of victims of human trafficking and efforts to increase the rate of prosecutions of human traffickers should not come at the cost of alleged traffickers’ rights to a fair trial, as a failure to uphold fair trial rights places them at risk of
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Migration, Trafficking, and the Greek Economy: A comment on ‘the trafficker next-door’ Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Georgios Papanicolaou,Georgios Antonopoulos
This article interrogates the manifestations and implications of the intertwining of migration policies and the global prohibition regime against human trafficking in Greece. In a dramatic reversal of long historical patterns, post-cold war Greece became a migration destination country, receiving a large number of migrants. While Greece’s policies approached the phenomenon as an administrative embarrassment
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Oblivious ‘Sex Traffickers’: Challenging stereotypes and the fairness of US trafficking laws Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Dr Amber Horning,Dr Loretta Stalans
In this paper, we explore third parties who unexpectedly fell within the legal definition of a sex trafficker. The anti-trafficking lobby and media stories frequently portray traffickers as organised, psychopathic, violent, and child kidnappers. We dismantle these depictions by showing the unexpected people who qualify as traffickers. This paper incorporates findings from two studies involving eighty-five
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Chasing Geographical and Social Mobility: The motivations of Nigerian madams to enter indentured relationships Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Milena Rizzotti
This article draws from interviews with Nigerian women convicted of trafficking for sexual exploitation in Italy to challenge the simplistic public narrative of traffickers as ruthless foreign men who coerce naïve women into migration and sex work. Madams’ narratives shed light on a reality of trafficking where both traffickers and victims share similar desires to overcome constraints imposed on their
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Interview: Raised in Pimp City: Urban insights on traffickers, trafficking, and the counter-trafficking industry Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Armand King,Borislav Gerasimov,Marika McAdam
Armand King was involved in human trafficking for over a decade. The journal Editor, Borislav Gerasimov, and the Special Issue Guest Editor, Marika McAdam, conducted this interview with him to better understand his motivations and experiences during this period of his life as well as his views on counter-trafficking.
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Trafficker Profile According to US Federal Prosecutions Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Alyssa Currier Wheeler
This article presents data on defendants in US federal human trafficking prosecutions between 2000 and 2020. Through an exhaustive analysis of court documents, press releases, and news articles, it shows who is implicated in trafficking crimes, how they are connected to their victims, and at what point they become traffickers. It concludes that, while there is no universal trafficker profile, traffickers
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Sex Traffickers: Friend or foe? Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Dr Haezreena Hamid
This article addresses the knowledge gap surrounding human traffickers in Malaysia. Based on qualitative interviews with women identified as victims of trafficking, it explores the women’s perception of their traffickers and their migration experience. The article asserts that the term ‘trafficker’ is complex and misunderstood by scholars, states, and state officials; and that trafficked persons may
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‘It’s About Survival’: Court constructions of socio-economic constraints on women offenders in Australian human trafficking for sexual exploitation cases Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Alexandra Baxter,Dr Nerida Chazal
Women make up more than half of the offenders convicted for human trafficking for sexual exploitation in Australia since 2005. This article explores how courts construct the financial motivations for women’s offending to examine how gendered structural constraints are considered in Australian trafficking cases. We explore data from the sentencing remarks and appeal transcripts from the ten cases of
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The Myth of the ‘Ideal Offender’: Challenging persistent human trafficking stereotypes through emerging Australian cases Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Kyla Raby,Dr. Nerida Chazal
Human trafficking and slavery offences are often constructed through prominent stereotypes of the ideal victim and the ideal offender. This article examines four common offender stereotypes created by representations of trafficking seen in the media, popular culture, government reports, and awareness campaigns, and challenges these stereotypes by comparing them with international and Australian research
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The Constitutional Limits of Anti-Trafficking Norms in the Commonwealth Caribbean Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Dr Jason Haynes
Trafficking in persons is a crime and a human rights violation that affects most states across the globe, including those in the Commonwealth Caribbean. There- fore, in the last twenty years, governments have rushed to enact anti-trafficking laws with a level of alacrity the international community has never seen before. While the enactment of these laws is both necessary and desirable, some have pushed
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Traffickers’ Use of Substances to Recruit and Control Victims of Domestic Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation in the American Midwest Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2022-04-19 Dr Erica Koegler,Dr Claire Wood,Lilly Bahlinger,Dr Sharon Johnson
This paper describes how traffickers use substances to recruit and control victims of domestic trafficking for sexual exploitation, as reported by service providers working with trafficking survivors in the American Midwest. This data was derived from interviews with 15 service providers in a major metropolitan area. Findings revealed consistencies with previous literature and new insights into the
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A Train-the-Trainer Programme to Deliver High Quality Education for Healthcare Providers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Jessica Peck
A promising practice for educating anti-trafficking stakeholders in healthcare emerged through an innovative train-the-trainer programme from a National Association of Pediatric Nurse Practitioner’s initiative called the Alliance for Children in Trafficking (ACT). The purpose of this training is to provide effective, high-quality education development with wide dissemination and reach. The obstacles
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Truth as a Victim: The challenge of anti-trafficking education in the age of Q Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Bond Benton,Daniela Peterka-Benton
The QAnon conspiracy threatens anti-trafficking education because of its broad dissemination and focus on a range of myths about trafficking. These myths are rooted in historic and ongoing misinformation about abductions, exploitation, and community threats. This article examines the extent of QAnon’s co-optation of human trafficking discourses and evaluates its connection to trafficking myths, particularly
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Civically Engaged and Inclusive Pedagogy: Facilitating a multidisciplinary course on human trafficking Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Annjanette Ramiro Alejano-Steele
For university instructors who teach human trafficking as a comprehensive course, design decisions often begin with determining scope, disciplinary orientation, and learning goals. Further decisions involve pedagogical approaches and how to best support and sustain student learning. With civic engagement principles, universities can situate themselves within local anti-trafficking initiatives by offering
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Pedagogical Approaches to Human Trafficking Through Applied Research Laboratories Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Laura Dean
Human trafficking is a phenomenon that lends itself to hands-on pedagogical practices and undergraduate research that, in turn, can create localised knowledge with anti-trafficking stakeholders. Research labs focused on human trafficking are one-on-one or small group applied research settings that build a bridge between the university and anti-trafficking stakeholders over multiple semesters. In this
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Responsibly Including Survivors’ Voices in the Planning and Implementing of Educational Programmes for Healthcare Providers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Preeti Panda,Annette Mango,Anjali Garg
Survivors’ experiences and input are essential for human trafficking education for healthcare providers yet they remain under-utilised. This article describes a collaborative initiative between two paediatric physicians and a survivor of trafficking, which led to the implementation of an anti-trafficking education programme for healthcare providers. It outlines the process of establishing the collaboration
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Self-education and Collective Learning: Forming a critical ‘modern slavery’ study group Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Maayan Niezna,Pankhuri Agarwal
This article describes the authors’ experience in forming an interdisciplinary online study group dedicated to collective learning on modern slavery and trafficking from a critical perspective. It proposes ideas for discussions and readings along with three main principles concerning the method and approach of creating such a group that can be relevant to researchers and practitioners. First, the creation
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Social Work Education that Addresses Trafficking for Sexual Exploitation: An intersectional, anti-oppressive practice framework Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Lara Gerassi,Andrea Nichols
Practice, policy, and research focused on trafficking for sexual exploitation and commercial sex involvement occur in the United States within a white, heteronormative social environment that must be addressed pedagogically in the classroom. Social work education increasingly includes the topic of trafficking for sexual exploitation as a stand-alone course or as sessions embedded within other courses
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The Next Step: The California Cybersecurity Institute’s Anti-Trafficking Virtual Reality Immersion Training Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Danielle Borrelli,Benjamin Thomas Greer
Digital gaming and virtual learning platforms have expanded the boundaries of experiential based anti-trafficking training. Virtual reality provides a technological mechanism for immersive storytelling through the simulation of a physical presence within an artefact using software and specialised hardware. The success of virtual-based immersive training is directly dependent on a series of factors
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Postcolonial Frameworks with Survivors’ Voices: Teaching about contemporary and historical forms of slavery and forced labour Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Sallie Yea
Much of the information for educating students and the public about human trafficking only involves survivors’ direct experiences as brief excerpts from more complex and detailed narratives. In this paper, I draw on a postcolonial framework to argue that sidelining survivors’ voices can bolster anti-slavery stakeholders’ agendas by selectively using survivors’ narratives to illustrate narrow constructions
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Human Trafficking Education for Emergency Department Providers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Caroline Shadowen,Sarah Beaverson,Fidelma Rigby
Many trafficked persons receive medical care in the Emergency Department (ED); however, ED staff have historically not been educated about human trafficking. In this article, we describe interventions aimed to train ED providers on the issue of trafficking. We performed a scoping review of the existing literature and found 17 studies that describe such interventions: 14 trainings implemented in the
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Editorial: Anti-Trafficking Education: Sites of care, knowledge, and power Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-09-15 Annie Isabel Fukushima,Annie Hill,Jennifer Suchland
This article introduces a Special Issue on anti-trafficking education. The past decade has seen a dramatic increase in the sites for anti-trafficking education and the range of educators who shape how the public and institutions understand and respond to human trafficking. Thus, there is a need to analyse the formalised and informalised practices that facilitate teaching and learning about trafficking
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‘Little Rascals’ or Not-So-Ideal Victims: Dealing with minors trafficked for exploitation in criminal activities in the Netherlands Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Brenda Oude Breuil
Trafficking in minors for exploitation in criminal activities is a form of human trafficking that is generally not well-recognised and understood by frontline actors. This paper, based on empirical data from frontline actors, shows that this is also the case in the Netherlands. Moreover, the Dutch ethnicised understanding of the phenomenon, which is conceptualised as a ‘Roma’ problem, further obfuscates
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Editorial: Trafficking in Minors: Confronting complex realities, structural inequalities, and agency Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Brenda Oude Breuil,Borislav Gerasimov
This Editorial introduces a Special Issue of the journal Anti-Trafficking Review of the topic of ‘Trafficking in Minors’. It argues that the urgency of the phenomena of child trafficking and related issues, such as child labour and child sexual exploitation, and the emotional responses they provoke, have often led to superficial and knee-jerk reactions that obscure the root causes of the problems and
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Commercial Gestational Surrogacy: Unravelling the threads between reproductive tourism and child trafficking Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Nishat Hyder-Rahman
Narratives of commercial gestational surrogacy (CGS) as ‘baby-selling’ often conflate or interchange the transfer of children born via surrogacy with trafficking in children or the sale of children, two sometimes overlapping but nonetheless distinct offenses. Moreover, anti-trafficking laws have been used to police cross-border CGS. But when do CGS arrangements fall within the category of legitimate
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Child Trafficking vs. Child Sexual Exploitation: Critical reflection on the UK media reports Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Elena Krsmanovic
This article explores how UK media narratives construct sexual exploitation of British children as a phenomenon to be approached differently than sexual exploitation of trafficked minors who are non-British nationals. Qualitative analysis of media articles that frame infamous child sexual exploitation cases as occurrences of human trafficking shows that they bank on the motifs from the historical white
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Putting Childhood in Its Place: Rethinking popular discourses on the conceptualisation of child trafficking in Ghana Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Bernard Koomson,Dawuda Abdulai
Popular discourses on child trafficking are generally characterised by unverifiable statistics, melodramatic representations, and emotional reactions. More so, notions of poverty, exploitation, and the protection of children from harm have driven educational and sensitisation campaigns that seek to address trafficking in children. The ensuing status quo blurs diverse cultural conceptions of childhood
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Between Theory and Reality: The challenge of distinguishing between trafficked children and independent child migrants Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Mike Dottridge
The offence of child trafficking appears to have a clear definition in the UN Trafficking Protocol and in laws based on it. In practice, this is an illusion. This article reviews the experiences of three countries (Benin, the United Kingdom, and Vietnam), in two of which anti-trafficking laws and policies regard a broad swath of children who migrate to earn a living, without being subjected to coercion
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The Perfect Victim: ‘Young girls’, domestic trafficking, and anti-prostitution politics in Canada Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Elya Durisin,Emily Van der Meulen
This article explores debates among politicians in Ontario, Canada, regarding anti-trafficking legislation introduced in 2016 and 2017. We find that contemporary discussions in the political sphere have shifted away from concerns about the trafficking of migrant exotic dancers and toward the sexual exploitation of girls and young women, represented as idealised, inculpable victims. We suggest that
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‘Why Was He Videoing Us?’: The ethics and politics of audio-visual propaganda in child trafficking and human trafficking campaigns Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Sam Okyere,Nana Agyeman,Emmanuel Saboro
The Anti-Trafficking Review has retracted this article. After publication, some of the facts presented in the article were contested and the journal has not been able to independently verify them. For questions, please contact the editorial team at atr@gaatw.org
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Ganged Up On: How the US immigration system penalises and fails to protect Central American minors who are trafficked for criminal activity by gangs Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Katherine Soltis,Madeline Taylor Diaz
This article addresses the failures of the United States immigration system to protect Central American minors who were trafficked for exploitation in criminal activities by gangs. In particular, it focuses on the ways in which the US immigration system denies humanitarian protection to Central American minors who were forced to participate in criminal activity by the Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) and 18th
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Online Child Sexual Exploitation in the Philippines: Moving beyond the current discourse and approach Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2021-04-29 Melinda Gill
Online child sexual exploitation (OCSE) is an issue of increasing concern in the Philippines. The current local discourse concerning OCSE is that it primarily involves children being sexually exploited by adults within their household or in ‘dens’, with ‘raid and rescue’ operations and public awareness campaigns as the most publicised strategies employed to address the issue. Whilst the true prevalence
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Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves? Listening to migrant domestic workers’ everyday temporalities Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Ella Parry-Davies
This essay draws on multi-sited, performance art-led research with Filipinx migrant domestic workers in the UK and Lebanon. It explores a dichotomy at work in the portrayal of some workers as bagong bayani or ‘modern heroes’—a phrase coined by then Philippine president Corazon Aquino—and as ‘modern slaves’, a term more recently associated with the humanitarian and state processing of survivors of human
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Base Motives: The case for an increased focus on wage theft against migrant workers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Benjamin Harkins
Since the adoption of the UN Trafficking Protocol, most of the efforts dedicated to eliminating exploitation of migrant workers have focused on human trafficking. Yet, there is limited evidence to show that this approach has been effective at reducing the scale or severity of abuses they experience. This article presents the case for increasing attention to a range of labour rights abuses falling under
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Slaves to Technology: Worker control in the surveillance economy Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Bama Athreya
Technology is enabling new forms of coercion and control over workers. While digital platforms for labour markets have been seen as benign or neutral technology, in reality they may enable new forms of worker exploitation. Workers in precarious conditions who seek employment via digital platforms are highly vulnerable to coercion and control via forms of algorithmic manipulation. This manipulation
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Reflections from the Field: Disparate responses to labour exploitation in post-Katrina Louisiana Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Leanne McCallum
Hurricane Katrina was a devastating natural disaster that changed the landscape of the United States' Gulf Coast This was followed by a human-made disaster of failed policies, poor governmental oversight, and rampant labour abuse This article compares how the anti-trafficking and labour rights movements responded to the widespread labour abuse following Katrina It examines how the worker rights movement
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Rights Not Rescue: Lessons from migrant domestic workers in the UK and their struggle for systems change Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Kate Roberts
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
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Strategic Redirection through Litigation: Forgoing the anti-trafficking framework to address labour abuses experienced by migrant sex workers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Alison Clancey, Frances Mahon
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
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Domestic Work and the Gig Economy in South Africa: Old wine in new bottles? Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Abigail Hunt, Emma Samman
Based on innovative, mixed-methods research, this article examines the entry of on-demand platform models into the domestic work sector in South Africa. This sector has long been characterised by high levels of informality, precarity, and exploitation, though recent regulatory advances have provided labour and social protections to some domestic workers. We locate the rise of the on-demand economy
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Letting Go of the Dream of Traffickers behind Bars: We can do better for exploited workers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Lisa Rende Taylor
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
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The Anti-Trafficking Cause: From exceptionalism to shared struggle Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Sienna Baskin, Huey Hewitt
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
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‘Ways of Seeing’—Policy paradigms and unfree labour in India Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Lorena Arocha, Meena Gopal, Bindhulakshmi Pattadath, Roshni Chattopadhyay
This article traces the trajectory of different initiatives to address unfree labour and their impact on workers’ capacity to aspire to and exercise their rights in India. We attempt to understand the dimensions and effects of different ‘ways of seeing’ precarity and exploitation within the larger context of economic policies, social structures such as caste-based discrimination, gender-based violence
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The Struggle of Waste Pickers in Colombia: From being considered trash, to being recognised as workers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Federico Parra
Organised waste pickers in Colombia are formally recognised as subjects of special protection and as providers of the public service of recycling. As a consequence, they now receive remuneration for their work, but this was not always the case. This article highlights the strategies waste pickers used to successfully demand their rights while exploring the tensions and contradictions surrounding the
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From Conflict to Common Ground: Why anti-trafficking can be compatible with challenging the systemic drivers of everyday abuses Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Ella Cockbain
Response to the ATR debate proposition ‘It is worth undermining the anti-trafficking cause in order to more directly challenge the systems producing everyday abuses within the global economy.’
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Editorial: From Exceptional Cases to Everyday Abuses: Labour exploitation in the global economy Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-09-28 Joel Quirk, Caroline Robinson, Cameron Thibos
This article introduces a special issue on economic systems and everyday abuses of labour rights. In recent decades, neoliberal policies have transformed both the world economy and the world of work. Hard-won rights and protections have been eroded by deregulation, outsourcing, and subcontracting. New forms of unstable, isolated, and insecure work have emerged. This introduction examines the driving
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The Use of Digital Evidence in Human Trafficking Investigations Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Isabella Chen, Celeste Tortosa
This short article two NGO workers’ experience providing legal and social support to twenty Venezuelan women who were trafficked through the use of social media and chat apps. It shows how the digital evidence from online interactions between the women and their traffickers was used in the investigation and successful prosecution of the case. The article concludes, however, that this does not apply
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Erased: The impact of FOSTA-SESTA and the removal of Backpage on sex workers Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Danielle Blunt, Ariel Wolf
This short article presents in brief the findings of a community-based, sex worker-led survey that asked sex workers about their experiences since the closure of Backpage and adoption of FOSTA. It shows that the financial situation of the vast majority of research participants has deteriorated, as has their ability to access community and screen clients. It concludes that FOSTA is just the latest example
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'I've Never Been So Exploited': The consequences of FOSTA-SESTA in Aotearoa New Zealand Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Erin Tichenor
Aotearoa New Zealand’s 2003 decriminalisation of sex work has reduced the exploitation of sex workers, as well as the health and safety risks in the industry. Nevertheless, United States-driven criminalising policies still influence sex workers abroad. The Fight Online Sex Trafficking and Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Acts (FOSTA-SESTA) effectively criminalised websites where sex workers advertise
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Same Same but Different? Gender, sex work, and respectability politics in the MyRedBook and Rentboy closures Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Samantha Majic
Among the many policies implemented to eradicate trafficking in the sex industry, US government agencies have targeted online platforms that market and facilitate sex work. In this paper, I consider two instances of this activity: the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2014 raid and subsequent closing of MyRedbook.com, and the Department of Homeland Security’s 2015 raid and closing of Rentboy.com. Drawing
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Witnessing in a Time of Homeland Futurities Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Annie Fukushima
Current US rhetorical strategies of imagining a future of the homeland have led to the creation and utilisation of new technologies to contain and manage the border. These responses to the US border and immigration impact anti-trafficking efforts, sustaining a ‘homeland futurity’. Homeland futurity draws on and extends discourses of emergency that solidify borders as dangerous and risky. This article
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Addressing Exploitation in Supply Chains: Is technology a game changer for worker voice? Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Laurie Berg, Bassina Farbenblum, Angela Kintominas
Multinational businesses are facing mounting pressure to identify and address risks of exploitation, trafficking and modern slavery in their supply chains. Digital worker reporting tools present unprecedented opportunities for lead firms to reach out directly to hard-to-reach workers for feedback on their working conditions via their mobile phone. These new technologies promise an efficient and cost-effective
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There’s an App for That? Ethical consumption in the fight against trafficking for labour exploitation Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Stephanie Limoncelli
Among the market-based strategies being used to fight trafficking for labour exploitation are apps aimed at encouraging ethical consumption. Such apps have surfaced in tandem with the increased involvement of businesses in anti-trafficking efforts and the promotion of social entrepreneurism. In this article, I describe and critically analyse three apps aimed at individual consumers, arguing that they
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Freeing the Modern Slaves, One Click at a Time: Theorising human trafficking, modern slavery, and technology Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Sanja Milivojevic, Heather Moore, Marie Segrave
This paper analyses relations between human trafficking, modern slavery, and information communication technology. It looks at the history of the technology-trafficking nexus and flags some key advances in the counter-trafficking discourse in the last two decades. It provides an overview of how technology has been framed as both a part of the problem and part of the solution in the trafficking/slavery
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Surveillance and Entanglement: How mandatory sex offender registration impacts criminalised survivors of human trafficking Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Kate Mogulescu, Leigh Goodmark
This short article describes how some victims of human trafficking in the sex industry in the United States are prosecuted alongside traffickers and put on sex offender registries. The result is both a criminal record and an indefinite digital mark that limits their ability to find a job, settle in a new community, and see their children. The article concludes with a call for a careful, critical look
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Editorial: Between Hope and Hype: Critical evaluations of technology’s role in anti-trafficking Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2020-04-27 Jennifer Musto, Mitali Thakor, Borislav Gerasimov
Whatever meaning, however fraught, was attached to the notion of 'business (and we would add politics and life) as usual before the spread of the virus has been indefinitely suspended, and global public attention daily trained to tracking confirmed cases, tallying death counts, and taking stock of the virus's disruptive social, political, and economic effects People who endure structural vulnerabilities
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Deconstructing Underlying Assumptions about Trafficked Minors and Children Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Jeremy Norwood
In Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States: Reimagining Survivors, Elzbieta M. Goździak (2016) not only explores the experiences of children and youth who have been exploited by their traffickers, but she also addresses the system in the United States that seeks to intervene and assist them. In order to understand this apparent process of victimisation, Goździak articulates the need to deconstruct
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The Quest to End Modern Slavery: Metaphors in corporate modern slavery statements Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Ilse Ras, Christiana Gregoriou
This paper focuses on the modern slavery statements of three major UK high street retailers who are known for their relatively pro-active approach to the debate on corporate responsibility for ethical trading. Drawing on our earlier research in relation to metaphors in British newspaper reporting of modern slavery and human trafficking since 2000, we explore the metaphors that recur across the statements
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Virtual Saviours: Digital games and anti-trafficking awareness-raising Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Erin O’Brien, Helen Berents
In recent years, digital games have emerged as a new tool in human trafficking awareness-raising. These games reflect a trend towards ‘virtual humanitarianism’, utilising digital technologies to convey narratives of suffering with the aim of raising awareness about humanitarian issues. The creation of these games raises questions about whether new technologies will depict humanitarian problems in new
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Introducing the Slave Next Door Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2019-09-26 Jen Birks, Alison Gardner
Past studies have indicated that the British public consider human trafficking to be remote from their personal experiences. However, an increase in local press reporting, alongside the emergence of locally co-ordinated anti-modern slavery campaigns, is starting to encourage communities to recognise the potential for modern slavery and human trafficking to exist in their own localities. In this article