18 September 2017

Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling

Opportunity:

CFP: Anti-trafficking Review [info]
- Submissions sought for themed issue on "Irregular Migrants, Refugees or Trafficked Persons?"; deadline is 7 January 2018.

Publications:

"Confronting the Rise of Trafficking of Syrian Refugees in Lebanon: Protection Challenges, Legal Barriers and Patterns of Vulnerability," Oxford Monitor of Forced Migration, vol. 7, no. 1 (Aug. 2017) [full-text]

Does ‘Human Trafficking’ Need a New Definition? (Global Initiative, July 2017) [text]

“Fake Refugees” or “Victims of Trafficking”? Vulnerable Migrants in Hong Kong and the Boundaries between Refugee and Human Trafficking Experiences, Paper contributed to the International Seminar on Mixed Migration, Bangkok, 21-22 June 2017 [text]

Flow Monitoring Surveys: The Human Trafficking and Other Exploitative Practices Prevalence Indication Survey - Analysis on Migrants and Refugees from Nigeria Travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route (IOM, Sept. 2017) [text via ReliefWeb]

Four Dangerous Assumptions about Human Trafficking (World Economic Forum, Aug. 2017) [text]

Migrants and Refugees as Victims of Human Trafficking: Can They Claim Asylum in EU according to the Geneva Convention of 1951 relating to the Status of Refugees? - The Implementation of C.E.A.S (Common European Asylum System) and the EU Legal Approach against Trafficking, Paper contributed to the International Seminar on Mixed Migration, Bangkok, 21-22 June 2017 [text]

"Ransom Kidnapping and Human Trafficking: The Case of the Sinai Torture Camps," Berkeley Journal of International Law, vol. 36 (Forthcoming, 2017) [preprint via SSRN]

Recognizing Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings as Refugees according to the 1951 UN Geneva Refugee Convention, Paper contributed to the International Seminar on Mixed Migration, Bangkok, 21-22 June 2017 [text]

Smuggling of Migrants, Trafficking in Persons and Contemporary Forms of Slavery, including Appropriate Identification, Protection and Assistance to Migrants and Trafficking Victims, Vienna, 4-5 Sept. 2017 [info]
- Follow link for background documents and information about side events. The report of the session should be available soon.

"Why More Migrants are Dying in the Sahara," New York Times, 22 Aug. 2017 [text]

Related post:
- Thematic Focus: Human Trafficking & Smuggling (25 July 2017)

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