JOURNAL OF MODERN SLAVERY
A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Human Trafficking Solutions
Volume 7, Issue 1, 2022
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The Ghost at the Junction: Exploring the Links Between Historic and Modern Slavery in Accra, Ghana
Dr Stephen Collins
Lecturer in Performance, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
Nii Kwaterlai Quartey
MPhil, Act for Change
Abstract
This article explores the conceptual links between historic and modern slavery in James Town, Accra. In Ghana, much of the narrative around the trans-Atlantic Slave Trade is focused on the slave forts at Elmina and Cape Coast. This is the case to such an extent that the position of James Town and Accra more widely has been forgotten. This is partly because the mechanisms used to transport enslaved people, through tunnels built by private merchants, made the trade less visible and so easier to ignore. In this article, we argue that the same issues of invisibility now apply to modern slavery, keeping the trade, and its victims, hidden.
Multi-Sector Human Trafficking Task Forces in the United States: Typologies and Overlapping Jurisdictions
Laura A. Dean
Political Science, Millikin University
Julisa Sierra
Political Science, Millikin University
Abstract
Over $150 million USD have been allocated to establish and implement multi-sector anti-trafficking entities around the United States (US). This article focuses on the development and cooperation of human trafficking task forces, anti-trafficking institutions established to combat human trafficking around the US. We use task force as an encompassing term for over 200 human trafficking multi-sector coalitions, working groups and/or commissions throughout all 50 states at different levels of jurisdiction. Our research determines the origin, scope, and variation of this anti-trafficking institution in the US. We created a typology of human trafficking task forces to show task force variation, the overlapping distribution of government grants, and task force leadership. We determined that there were seven different types of human trafficking task forces in the US from the grassroots level to those created by the Department of Justice. Some task forces do not serve all victims but focus on sex trafficking and/or child victims, reaffirming the deserving-versus-undeserving victim dichotomy.
The Biopolitics of Contemporary Slavery in Brazil and the Bare Life of the Enslaved Worker
Patrícia Trindade Maranhão Costa
Ph.D in Social Anthropology at the University of Brasilia, Brazil
Abstract
The article contributes to the analysis of cultural aspects involved in the contemporary slavery in Brazil, emphasizing two process that permeates the vulnerability of young male rural workers to the slave labor in the countryside, such as: the construction of masculinity of young rural workers and the social unrooting process with their families and places of origin. These processes contribute to deprive their lives of political value and social importance, making them bare lives susceptible to different forms of violence and degrading conditions in the workplace.