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About The Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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About the Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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About the Project
We are a group of scholars, activists and practitioners from a range of professional backgrounds including law, anthropology and sociology. Though with different political views, we share a commitment to social justice involving labor, migration and human trafficking. We also share a concern that public debate, particularly on trafficking, is too often simplistic, failing to take account of human...
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Recent Posts
Daphna Hacker and Orna Cohen. “The Shelters in Israel for Survivors of Human Trafficking.” US Department of State (2012).
Shelters are an important part of the slim segment of the anti-trafficking industrial complex that can be deemed a human rights project. They present the opportunity to give genuine aid to victims. But what is genuine aid? A recent report to the U.S. State Department by law professor Daphna Hacker and social work professor Orna Cohen provides a rich account of how difficult it can be to answer that question in theory and in practice. Hacker and Cohen were commissioned to study the two shelters for trafficking victims in Israel – one, Ma’agan, for women and the other, Atlas, for...
Read MoreLabor abuse in the name of “cultural exchange,” courtesy of the J-1 visa program (again)
On March 6, 2013, student guestworkers from around the world held a surprise strike to expose severe exploitation at McDonald’s restaurants near Harrisburg, PA. The students guestworkers, who came from Argentina, Peru, Chile, Malaysia, among other Asian and Latin American countries, each paid $3000 to participate in the U.S. State Department’s J-1 “cultural exchange” program. They were expecting to come to the United States to experience cultural exchange and decent work that would at least let them earn back the fees. Instead, the student guestworkers experienced...
Read MoreThe Celebrification of Human Trafficking, Part 1 (in a Six Part Series)
Celebrities, people “known for [their] well-knownness,”[1] now regularly engage in and effect human trafficking policy and practice. As a result, celebrities are not only raising public awareness about the existence of these problems, but influencing people, policy objectives, and ameliorative schemes in the public and private sectors. While criticizing people purporting to help other people can sound like sour grapes, it is important to critique one-dimensional, oversimplified, appeal-to-the-masses (and -funders) approaches to human trafficking, especially when the persons engaging in it...
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