Anti-Trafficking Review

Identifying ‘modern slavery’ can damage asylum claims The UK’s modern slavery identification system slows down asylum claims. It can even undermine them

This new article on @beyondslavery.bsky.social demonstrates how the UK National Referral Mechanism for victims of #humantrafficking does damage to their asylum claims. It's partly based on an excellent article we published in 2024 (this one antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...)

The State Department guts its office combating human trafficking The cuts come as Trump reels from MAGA anger over sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

For years, academics have criticised the TIP report and the US approach to #humantrafficking, including on the pages of our journal. But the Report, and JTIP, have also pushed for at least some positive changes in countries' approach to trafficking. Let's see where this will lead...

This article discusses how family, friends, peers, & communities act as motivating factors for prospective #migrant domestic workers in #Ethiopia looking to travel for work in the Middle East. It's #OpenAccess and available at antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

This article demonstrates that women often migrate, and endure exploitation, to financially support their families. It's based on interviews with 18 #migrant women identified as victims of #humantrafficking in #Malaysia. Read the article #OpenAccess here 👉🏼 antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

New #CallForPapers! This issue will document existing & emerging aspects of domestic/care work & intimate #labour, their intersections with #gender & #migration, and the policies and practices that enable or prevent the exploitation of care workers. See antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

This article analyses the role that families and family-like relationships play in sex work #migration and #humantrafficking of women from #Nigeria to #Europe 👉🏽 antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at... #OpenAccess

This article introduces our new special issue, which examines the experiences, needs and roles of those in the immediate environment of migrants and victims of #humantrafficking - their parents, siblings, children, and community. Find out more here 👉🏽 antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

Call for Papers: 'Care Work, Intimate Labour, Migration, and Exploitation' | Anti-Trafficking Review ISSN: 2286-7511E-ISSN: 2287-0113

[Call for Papers] @atrjournal.bsky.social invites submissions for a special issue on ‘Care Work, Intimate Labour, Migration, & Exploitation’. The issue seeks critical research exploring the intersections of care work, gendered labour, migration, & violence:

Twenty years of slow progress: Is anti-trafficking changing? Two decades in, Anti-Trafficking Review’s editor says maybe activists still don’t understand social change

The journal's Editor Borislav Gerasimov spoke with @joelquirk.bsky.social about what has changed in anti-trafficking work over the past 20 years, whether the anti-trafficking "movement" is learning, and what might lie ahead...
www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-tr... #humantrafficking

#CallForPapers: This issue will document existing & emerging aspects of domestic/care work & intimate #labour, their intersections with #gender & #migration, and the policies and practices that enable or prevent the exploitation of care workers. See antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

We published a new #CallForPapers for a special issue that will analyse the policies and practices that enable or prevent the exploitation of domestic/care workers and intimate labourers. See the call here: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

Our new issue is out today! It explores the roles, needs, and experiences of people in the immediate environment of #migrants and victims of #humantrafficking - their parents, children, siblings, and community 👉🏽 antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at... As always, all articles are #OpenAccess

Our new special issue is almost ready and will be published on Tuesday. It focuses on the roles, needs, and experiences of people in the immediate environment of #migrants and victims of #humantrafficking - their children, parents, siblings and community members. Here's a sneak peek 👇🏼

The new issue of our journal is coming out at in two weeks! It's guest edited by Nerida Veale and explores the roles, experiences & needs of those in the immediate environment of #migrants & victims of #humantrafficking - their parents, siblings, children... Here's a sneak peek at the issue articles

Check out our most recent #CallForPapers for a special issue that will examine the rationale behind and the impact of corporate-focused strategies to reduce #humantrafficking and #exploitation: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

As an academic journal publishing research related to #humanrights, we reject incorrect and dehumanising terms such as "illegal migrant". Instead, we encourage the use of precise terms, such as irregular or undocumented migrant.

There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’

#NoOneIsIllegal deserves to be repeated again and again #WordsMatter

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽to @mehdirhasan.bsky.social for @theguardian.com

For years, the U.S. has led global #anti-trafficking efforts - but where did the money go? A new study shows most funding focused on reactive responses, not root causes like poverty or inequality. Now, with foreign aid cuts, those root causes will worsen: antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...

Hello world! We're a an #openaccess, peer reviewed journal that publishes on topics related to #humantrafficking, #migration, precarious labour, and #genderbasedviolence. Ran away from X for the obvious reasons. Check out all our articles and special issues at antitraffickingreview.org

Check out the latest special issue of our journal, with guest editors K Sharapov, S Hoff & J Mendel. The issue critically analyses where the funding for #anti-trafficking work comes from, goes to & what its impact is. It's #OpenAccess & available at antitraffickingreview.org/index.php/at...