25 July 2017

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Event:

Workshop: Disrupting the Human Trafficking-Migration Nexus, Boston, 27-28 October 2017 [info]

Publications:

Blaming the Rescuers (Goldsmiths, Univ. of London, June 2017) [access]

Italy’s Smuggling Prosecutions Ruin Lives While Real Criminals Go Free (Refugees Deeply, July 2017) [text]

Operation Sophia: A Failed Mission (UK House of Lords, July 2017) [text]
- See also related Guardian article.

Saving Lives, Research Paper, no. 17-16 (University of Florida, Levin College of Law, Jan. 2017) [text via SSRN]
 - An analysis of private humanitarian aid to asylum-seekers.

"Smugglers are Abandoning Migrants in the Middle of a Desert the Size of Texas," Washington Post, 5 July 2017 [text]

Social Inclusion, vol. 5, no. 2 (2017) [open access]
- Special issue on "Perspectives on Human Trafficking and Modern Forms of Slavery." Includes "Trafficking and Syrian Refugee Smuggling: Evidence from the Balkan Route" and "Identifying Victims of Human Trafficking at Hotspots by Focusing on People Smuggled to Europe."

Thailand: Trafficking Convictions Important Step Forward (Human Rights Watch, July 2017) [text]

"Trump Administration Targets Parents Who Paid to Smuggle Children into U.S.," McClatchy, 29 June 2017 [text]

UN Migration Agency Issues Report on Arrivals of Sexually Exploited Migrants, Chiefly from Nigeria (IOM, July 2017) [text]
- Note: The report is currently only in Italian, but an English version will be made available soon.

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (27 June 2017)

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