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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe antiblackness of 'modern-day slavery' abolitionism
Antiblack racism underwrites the contemporary movement against “modern-day slavery.” The anti-slavery movement is...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTrans-Atlantic slavery and contemporary human trafficking
Are we learning from the past or exploiting it? It is easy to obscure the similar economic rationales and incentive...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryNarrow viewpoints and conflicting interests undermine anti-trafficking efforts: Q&A | Part I
Current anti-trafficking measures are weak because of a lack of inter-agency cooperation combined with a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryExtreme exploitation is not a problem of human nature
Extreme exploitation is a structural problem, not a problem of human nature. Unless we deal with the ‘root causes’,...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryMiscounting human trafficking and slavery
Two recent ‘studies’ have attracted a lot of international attention. Each presents incredibly flawed findings. And...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryFielding the wrong ball – culture as a cause of ‘modern slavery’
New abolitionists often attribute trafficking in certain areas to ‘cultural attitudes’. In doing so, they not only...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryLaw’s mediations: the shifting definitions of trafficking
As trafficking becomes increasingly conflated with slavery and forced labor, there is less and less agreement...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryHappy endings? Slavery, emancipation and freedom
Let’s stop giving the architects and beneficiaries of an increasingly neoliberal world order a platform on which to...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaverySlavery and trafficking: beyond the hollow call
Reports on modern slavery miss the target when they blame individual actions and ‘a few bad apples’. This is a...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryTime to get serious about forced labour in supply chains
We now know that our shopping carts are full of forced labour. So why are governments and industry doing so little...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhen human trafficking becomes a Cause Celebre
Celebrities no longer just raise money and awareness. They offer advice about how to approach and ‘solve’ the human...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryThe politics of exception: the bipartisan appeal of human trafficking
Contemporary abolitionism garners strong bipartisan support because it does not challenge major economic and...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryIntroducing: Beyond Trafficking and Slavery
This week’s special feature was edited by Neil Howard, Genevieve LeBaron and Cameron Thibos from openDemocracy’s new...
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Published in: Beyond Trafficking and SlaveryWhy we need to move Beyond Trafficking and Slavery
Introducing a new openDemocracy partnership challenging both the empty sensationalism of mainstream media accounts...