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Reconceptualizing Approaches to Human Trafficking: New Directions and Perspectives from the Field(s) by Kathleen Kim and Grace Chang
Scholars and advocates across several movements have attempted to develop approaches to human trafficking that would best serve the needs and support the rights of all migrant workers and survivors of trafficking. Many U.S.-based and international groups organizing for immigrant, labor, sex worker, and sexual and reproductive health rights, understand the need for collaborations among them. Yet, such connections have been largely obstructed by the U.S. federal government approach to trafficking, which emphasizes sex trafficking over other...
read moreThe Trafficked Worker as Private Attorney General: A Model for Enforcing the Civil Rights of Undocumented Workers by Kathleen Kim
This Article seeks to prioritize the civil workplace rights of undocumented immigrants over the goals of immigration enforcement by placing primacy on the role of the immigrant undocumented worker as private attorney general. In developing this concept, this Article draws from the legal framework addressing human trafficking. In theory, undocumented workers victimized by exploitive employment practices may act as private attorneys general in the enforcement of workplace harms and may sue their employers under many of the same civil rights laws...
read moreThe Coercion of Trafficked Workers by Kathleen Kim
Theories of coercion exist across multiple disciplines to explicate the ability of one actor, the coercer, to diminish the free will of another, the coercee, in the absence of overt physical force. A valid claim of coercion places legal blame on the coercer or relinquishes the coercee from legal responsibility for a coerced act or omission. Defining the point at which coercion occurs, however, is the conceptually more difficult task. Recently, coercion has emerged as a significant source of analytic concern in a developing area of the...
read moreHow was Sex Trafficking “Eradicated” in Israel?
In the 1990’s and 2000’s Israel was a destination country for sex worker migration and trafficking. Every year since the early 1990’s thousands of women entered Israel for the purpose of prostitution, many of whom were trafficked. Trafficking in women into Israel was first documented by a report of Israeli NGOs in 1997, yet it can be dated to the collapse of the Soviet Union, when transnational crime networks took advantage of the waves of migration of Soviet Jews to Israel, to smuggle mainly non-Jewish sex workers into the...
read moreA Labor Paradigm for Human Trafficking?
I recently published an article in which I call for a paradigm shift from a human rights to a labor paradigm to human trafficking. In the article I argue that current efforts to combat trafficking, that view trafficking predominantly as a crime or as a human rights violation, end up helping an alarmingly small number of individuals out of the multitudes currently understood as falling under the category of trafficked persons, and even in these few cases, the assistance provided is of questionable value. I therefore suggest that a labor...
read moreThe Celebrification of Human Trafficking, Part III
Ricky Martin Ricky Martin has been a recent favorite of both the Executive and Legislative branches of the US government. He has been the recipient of substantial US government anti-trafficking funding, and has been a frequent celebrity witness before Congress. How does Martin’s work relate to human trafficking? Martin is a Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF, and through this humanitarian interest in children, created his own NGO, the Ricky Martin Foundation, which specifically works with child victims of human trafficking and those...
read moreCelebrification of Human Trafficking, Part III
Ricky Martin has been a recent favorite of both the Executive and Legisative branches of the US government. Through his Foundation, he has been the recipient of substantial US government anti-trafficking funding, and has been a frequent celebrity witness before Congress. How does Martin’s work relate to human trafficking? He was drawn to human trafficking through his interest in children, expressed through his work as a Goodwill Ambassador to UNICEF and his own NGO, the Ricky Martin Foundation, Among other efforts, the Foundation...
read moreExploitation in the Global Fishing Industry: New Zealand Researchers and Advocates Secure a Rare and Important Victory
Exploitation in the Global Fishing Industry: New Zealand Researchers and Advocates Secure a Rare and Important Victory Anne T. Gallagher The extent of exploitation within the world’s fishing fleets almost defies description. A recent report by the Nexus Institute and IOM documents the horrific situation of Ukrainian Seafarers “led through a calculated maze into a world of imprisonment at sea, backbreaking labour, sleep deprivation, crippling and untreated illness, and, for the least fortunate, death”. IOM has documented similar...
read moreA Battle Half-Won: India’s New Anti-Trafficking Law
The Indian Parliament recently enacted the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act, 2013 (CLA). Although primarily concerned with targeting rape and sexual assault, the Bill incorporates a range of other offences dealing with violence against women many of which the Indian Penal Code, 1860 (IPC) did not envisage. Two such offences relate to trafficking, an area of considerable policy and legal reform internationally. Specifically, the new Section 370 defines the offence of trafficking thus replacing the prior Section 370, which dealt with the buying or...
read moreCongratulations to Florrie Burke!
A hearty congratulations to Florrie Burke on receiving the inaugural Presidential Award for Extraordinary Efforts to Combat Trafficking in Persons “for her sustained dedication and unparalleled leadership in combating modern slavery through the development and delivery of comprehensive services, the empowerment of survivors to move from slavery to independence, and the transformation of policy to eradicate all forms of human trafficking.” So...
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