...A key challenge of this book project has been to weave in and bring to the fore victims/survivors’ voice in trying to respond to the necessity for greater and better collaborative knowledge production and service design in critical modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) studies...

...This case study explores the impact of COVID-19 on communities in Nepal and North East India and how the pandemic has increased vulnerabilities to modern slavery and human trafficking. It is an accumulation of our own personal reflections of what we have experienced and observed during the COVID-19...

...This chapter examines the issue of harm and suffering, detailing one of the issues identified in reparations litigation and policy debates. Some reparations claims have been dismissed in part due to the conception that there is nobody alive today who has directly suffered from slavery and thus...

..., such as the restitution for the Holocaust and the losses suffered by Jewish people during World War II. It conducts a comparative case study of Holocaust reparations and anti-Black/slavery reparations noting that while the Holocaust reparations claims were arguably successful, the case for reparations was not without its...

... to create the ‘demand and supply’ of migrant forced labourers who are subject to multidimensional insecurity and exploitation. We argue that attempts to portray contemporary ‘slavery’, ‘trafficking’ or ‘forced labour’ as exceptional phenomenon undermines an understanding of how such exploitation emanates...

...Drawing on material from across the world, this book reviews issues relating to child slavery in a strategic way. It traces the history of the concept of slavery and the first attempts at abolition through to the range of conventions and protocols that emerged during the twentieth century. The book...

...This chapter examines extreme forms of child labour in Turkey, focusing on forced labour and child trafficking. The process through which these children are made to work is revealed as closely related to child slavery. Forced labour is a long-standing practice from northwestern Turkey of parents...

...Given the breadth, depth, and horror of child slavery to be found in this book, how can it be eradicated? There are two key reasons. The first has to do with trends within child labour generally. In 2006, the International Labour Office published its second Global Report on child labour, which...

...This book examines the views of a number of theorists from ancient times to the 19th century on a range of welfare issues: wealth, poverty and inequality; slavery, gender issues and the family; child rearing and education; crime and punishment; the role of government in society; and the strengths...

...This chapter outlines the various forms of labour exploitation that exist. At the extreme end of the ‘continuum’ there is worker fatality both at work and through work. There are then extreme forms of non-fatal harm, including: chattel slavery; modern slavery; forced labour; human trafficking...

...This introductory chapter notes the recent heightened profile of the term ‘modern slavery’ in the UK. Various phenomena, practices, and policies have been bundled together under this term, which requires careful analytical and critical attention. It is argued that it is vitally important...

...This chapter discuss how campaigning and amendments to the Modern Slavery Act, together with a government-commissioned review, resulted in workers being able to change employers within the six-month duration of their visa. In addition, those formally confirmed as trafficked are now permitted...

...This chapter argues that trafficking in women, or White slavery as then called, became understood as a legal issue at the turn of 20th-century England, and as a response attracted several legal, and certain criminal law, solutions. Drawing from the archival records of the National Vigilance...

...Modern slavery, in the form of labour exploitation, domestic servitude, sexual trafficking, child labour and cannabis farming, is still growing in the UK and industrialised countries, despite the introduction of laws to try to stem it. This hugely topical book is the first to assess the legislation...

...This chapter discusses a compressed version of Britain’s colonial slavery beginnings in the Americas, and why British society eventually became a melting-pot of people from the Caribbean. This exploration through an intersectional lens, and applying a constructivist epistemological position...

... concerns. From this point of departure, Fierke problematizes the ‘we’ that constitutes David Hume’s common world of ‘commerce and conversation’ and wonders how we can see those who have been written out of history. She takes the issue of slavery as her example, beginning with Hume’s own troubling silence...

... and/or ‘modern slavery’. The chapter questions whether the principle of ‘do no harm’ is sufficient to guide researchers through these sometimes polemical and often contentious research environments. Given that power imbalances are built into responses to people who are trafficked, it is suggested...

...This chapter examines the quantitative dimensions of child slavery. It reviews the scope of childhood slavery as encompassing forced labour, child trafficking (for forced labour or sexual exploitation), debt bondage, serfdom, children forced into armed conflict, children forced into sexual slavery...

... effective international protocols and conventions are in changing the situation on the ground. The chapter examines governments' progress in implementing measures to eradicate child slavery and slavery-like practices under the Convention. It also discusses five areas critical for ending the worst forms...

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