The Anti-Trafficking Review, an open access, peer reviewed journal published by GAATW, has published a new call for papers for a special issue themed 'Migration, Sexuality, and Gender Identity' with guest editor Svati Shah. The aim of this issue will be to explore the experiences of LGBTQI+ people with migration, informal labour, sex work, asylum, trafficking, and more. In addition to academic articles, GAATW also welcomes shorter, blog-style pieces written by queer people or advocates that share first-person experiences with migration. See the full call for papers here. The deadline for submissions is 15 November 2021.
GAATW publishes new ATR issue on Trafficking in Minors 29 Apr 2021
The Global Alliance against Traffic in Women, published a new issue of their Anti-Trafficking Review (ATR). The ATR is an open access, peer reviewed journal dedicated to the issue of human trafficking and explores trafficking in its broader context and intersections with gender, labour, and migration. The Review offers an outlet and space for dialogue between academics, practitioners and advocates seeking to communicate new ideas and findings to those working for and with trafficked persons.
Each issue relates to an emerging or overlooked theme in the field of human trafficking. The theme of this new issue, is ‘Trafficking in Minors’. Contributors examine the phenomenon in different contexts and from a number of perspectives and focus among others on campaigns targeting minors, a media analysis of trafficking of minors, the issue of exploitation of minors in criminal activities and the intersections
Likewise, FOSTA/SESTA laws introduced in the US in 2018 pushed many workers into unsafe or exploitative working conditions, as online advertising platforms were shut down. Research published in the
Anti-Trafficking Review last year suggests that online sex workers have faced “detrimental effects on their financial stability, safety, access to community, and health outcomes”, while there is “no evidence that FOSTA/SESTA has curbed trafficking”.
Decrim Now’s letter also draws attention to the Nordic Model’s disproportionate effect on marginalised groups, including women, migrants, people of colour, disabled people, LGBTQ+ people, and those that have experienced poverty and homelessness “the same workers often conflated with trafficked victims”.
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Migrant workers in Kathmandu, Nepal. | Marcel Crozet/ILO/Flickr. Creative Commons (by-nc-nd).
21 January 2021 (openDemocracy) Since the adoption of the UN Trafficking Protocol, most efforts to eliminate exploitation of migrant workers have focused on human trafficking. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent every year on counter-trafficking initiatives, particularly on trainings to ‘raise awareness’, criminal investigation and prosecution, and shelter and ‘rehabilitation’ services.
More recently, the emergence of the modern slavery discourse has emphasised the role of business in perpetuating the exploitation of workers. Against the background of a worldwide pursuit of ever cheaper labour and reduced regulation, encouraging more ethical business practices by the private sector has been heralded as a force for change.