JOURNAL of MODERN SLAVERY

A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Human Trafficking Solutions

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Urmila Bhoola is a South African human rights lawyer working internationally on issues of women’s human rights, modern slavery, human trafficking and business human rights accountability. She was formerly the United Nations Special Rapporteur on contemporary forms of slavery, its causes and consequences, a mandate she held for six years. She is a former Judge of the Labour Court of South Africa and is currently an acting Judge of the High Court.

CALLS FOR SUBMISSIONS

Volume Eight, Issue Three

Access to remedy for survivors of all forms of slavery, trafficking and forced labour

Guest editors:
Heather Moore
RMIT University Business and Human Rights Centre
Neha Misra
Global Lead – Migration & Human Trafficking, Solidarity Centre
Sumitha Shaanthinni Kishna
Director, Our Journey

This special issue is intended to examine remediation from a range of fields and perspectives. We seek to include perspectives from researchers, practitioners and workers, which also includes examining co-design of remedy by migrant workers with lived experiencer and victim-survivors at different stages of the response.

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Submissions deadline extended: 31 August 2023.
Publication is planned for Fall 2023.

Volume Eight, Issue Four

State-imposed Forced Labour

Guest editor:
Patricia Carrier
Business Engagement Lead – Coalition to End Uyghur Forced Labour

This special issue intends to fill this gap by exploring from different fields and perspectives how and why state-imposed forced labour and human trafficking are used in different contexts, and its role in the current modern slavery discourse. We seek to include perspectives from scholars, practitioners and advocates, including persons with lived experience.

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Submission deadline extended: June 15, 2024

JOURNAL AIM & SCOPE

Journal of Modern Slavery: A Multidisciplinary Exploration of Human Trafficking Solutions, is dedicated to research, theory, and practical application in eradicating slavery. It is a nexus of critical thought for all fields relating to understanding and combating modern slavery and is unique in its focus on the issues of slavery and human trafficking.

The Journal engages academics and practitioners in dialogue between the fields, helping us find common language in work toward our common goal. It includes relevant research papers, review papers, case studies, book reviews and conference reports.

Studies currently published only within the author’s discipline or geographic area, which are widely dispersed and a challenge to track down, are assembled in this forum, to spark further research, invite interdisciplinary dialogue, foster changes in practices, create new university courses and new policy at all levels: locally, nationally, globally.

Our Editorial and Advisory boards are staffed with women and men with a diverse cross-section of professions, disciplines, nationalities and cultures, drawing on academic and field level expertise – they truly are subject matter experts in and worldwide leaders of the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking.

Journal of Modern Slavery is an online-only journal, giving it a worldwide reach and making it much more accessible than legacy journals. Our innovative website provides enhanced technical capabilities, increasing accessibility to our international audience of scholars, practitioners, law enforcement personnel, policy makers, direct service providers, legislators, judges and members of diplomatic corps. Our state-of the-art on-line Editorial Review application streamlines the peer review process and makes it easier for authors to contribute.

Anyone engaged in serious study of human trafficking and all its complexities can have access to timely information.

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COVID-19 and Modern Slavery, Journal of Modern Slavery, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2021

Introduction to the COVID-19 and MODERN SLAVERY Issue
Helen McCabe

COVID-19’s Impact on Anti-Trafficking Efforts: What do we know?
Idel Hanley and Jean-Pierre Gauci

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Identification of Victims of Modern Slavery and Their Access to Support Services in Australia
Nerida Chazal and Ms Kyla Raby

Fluid Vulnerabilities: Narratives of Modern Slavery in India during Lockdown
George Byrne, Professor Tamsin Bradley, Elizabeth Khumallambam, Sutirtha Sahariah

Ripped at the Seams: RMG Sector Workers During a Global Pandemic
Christopher Hansen, Jafar Iqbal, Maansi Parpiani, Ridhi Sahai, Vaiddehi Bansal, Mithila Iyer, Michelle Davis, and Kareem Kysia

Shattered Dreams: Bangladeshi Migrant Workers during a Global Pandemic
Ridhi Sahai, Vaiddehi Bansal, Muhammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Kareem Kysia, and Sharon Shen

Underlying Conditions: The Increased Vulnerability of Migrant Workers Under COVID-19 in Israel
Maayan Niezna, Yahel Kurlander, Hila Shamir

The Finance of Sex Trafficking and Impact of COVID-19
Phoebe Ewen

Red Light Refracted: Impacts of COVID-19 on Commercial Sexual Exploitation in Maharashtra, India
Erika Keaveney, Mithila Iyer, Xiran Liu, Rachael Jackson, and Kareem Kysia

Pivoting technology: understanding working conditions in the time of COVID-19
Hannah Thinyane, Michael Gallo

Australia’s Modern Slavery Act and COVID-19: a get out of jail free card?
Fiona McGaughey

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on survivors of human trafficking in the Philippines
Laura Cordisco Tsai, Jonna Eleccion, and Ankita Panda

The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Human Trafficking in Kenya: A Participatory Approach
Emily Brady, Aisha Ali Haji, Rehema Baya,Yasmin Manji, Helen McCabe, Muthoni Muhunyo, Sophie Otiende, and Ruth Sorby

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COVID-19 Supplemental Issue, Abstracts, Journal of Modern Slavery, Volume 6, Issue 2, 2021

Forward to the COVID-19 Supplemental Issue
Dr. Helen McCabe

COVID-19’s Impact on Anti-Trafficking Efforts: What do we know?
Idel Hanley, Jean-Pierre Gauci

The Impact of COVID-19 on the Identification of Victims of Trafficking and Their Access to Support Services in Australia
Dr. Nerida Chazal, Ms Kyla Raby

Critiquing America’s Response to Human Trafficking: Race, Gender, and Colonialism Narratives in a COVID-19 Context
Lucy Mahaffey

Fluid Vulnerabilities: Narratives of Modern Slavery in India during Lockdown
Dr. George Byrne, Professor Tamsin Bradley, Elizabeth Khumallambam, Dr. Sutirtha Sahariah

Ready Made Garment (RMG) Study: Bangladesh and India
Christopher Hansen, Jafar Iqbal, Maansi Parpiani, Michelle Davis, Ridhi Sahai, Vaiddehi Bansal, Mithila Iyer, Kareem Kysia

Overseas Labor Recruitment (OLR) Study – Bangladesh
Ridhi Sahai, Vaiddehi Bansal, Muhammad Jalal Uddin Sikder, Kareem Kysia

Underlying conditions: The Commodification of Migrant Workers Under COVID-19
Maayan Niezna, Dr. Yahel Kurlander, Hila Shamir

The Finance of Sex Trafficking and Impact of COVID-19
Phoebe Ewen

Commercial Sexual Exploitation (CSE) Study – India
Erika Keaveney, Mithila Iyer, Xiran Liu, Kareem Kysia

Pivoting technology: understanding working conditions in the time of COVID-19
Hannah Thinyane, Michael Gallo

Australia’s Modern Slavery Act and COVID-19: a get out of jail free card?
Fiona McGaughey

Services and Safety for Survivors of Human Trafficking: A Social Service Agency Statewide Survey on the Impact of COVID-19
Kimberly A. Hogan

Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on survivors of human trafficking in the Philippines
Laura Cordisco Tsai, PhD, and Jonna Eleccion

COVID-19 and Child Criminal Exploitation: Implications of the Pandemic for County Lines
Ben Brewster, Grace Robinson

Assessing the impact of ad-hoc migratory and asylum regulations on the vulnerability to human trafficking and forced labour in Spain, Germany, and Italy: identifying good practices during the COVID-19 pandemic
Dr. Ana B. Valverde-Cano, Juan J. Ruiz-Ramos, Paola Cavanna

The Impact of COVID-19 on Survivors of Modern Slavery in Kenya
Emily Brady, Dr. Helen McCabe, Sophie Otiende, Aisha Ali Haji, Rehema Maya, Yasmin Manji, Ruth Sorby

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Journal of Modern Slavery, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2021

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Adapting a life skills training program for survivors of human trafficking
Laura Cordisco Tsai, PhD, MSSW, Janice Ubaldo and Penny Sun

Piloting a method for the aggregation and visualisation of audit data to enhance forced labour risk identification
Zoë Fortune, Silvia Mera, and Paul Ling

“Boys Are Like Gold”: The Gendered Differences in Sexual Violence Against Street-Involved Children in Southwest Cambodia
Jarrett Davis, Glenn Miles, Maggie Eno, and Andrew G. Rowland

Contemporary slavery and health: mortality levels of rescued workers in Brazil
Dr. Bráulio Figueiredo Alves da Silva, Bernardo Lanza Queiroz, PhD, André Braz Golgher, PhD, Luciano Rodrigues Costa, PhD, and Patrícia Trindade Maranhão Costa, PhD

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Journal of Modern Slavery, Volume 5, Issue 1, 2020

Sentinel Surveillance and Centring Prevention in Anti-Trafficking Policy and Response

Michael Gallo, Hannah Thinyane

“I demand justice. I hold them all responsible”: Advancing the Enforcement of Anti-slavery Legislation in Mauritania

Rosana Garciandia, Maeve Ryan, Philippa Webb

Can Tech Tame the Outlaw Ocean?
A Book Review of The Outlaw Ocean: Crime and Survival in the Last Untamed Frontier (Author: Ian Urbina) and Film Review of Ghost Fleet (directed by Shannon Service and Jeffrey Waldron)

Bama Athreya, PhD

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Research Unchained: The Multidisciplinary Future of Antislavery Studies, Journal of Modern Slavery, Volume 4, Issue 2, Dec 2018

Forward to Research Unchained: Multidisciplinary Future of Antislavery Studied
Dr. Jean Allain and Dr. Kevin Bales

Introduction by the editors of the Antislavery Usable Past Postgraduate Research Network Special Issue
Katarina Schwarz, Hannah Jeffery, and Rebecca Nelson, PhD candidates

Part I: Definitions and Legal Justice

Approaching Contemporary Slavery Through an Historic Lens: an Interdisciplinary Perspective
Rebecca Nelson and Alicia Kidd, PhD candidates

Securing the Prohibition of Labour Exploitation in Law and Practice: Slavery, Servitude, Forced Labour and Human Trafficking in Italy, Spain and the UK
Dr. Paola Cavanna, Ana Belén Valverde Cano, PhD candidate, and Amy Weatherburn, PhD candidate

Strategic Litigation as a Tool to Combat Modern Slavery
James Sinclair, PhD candidate

Irregular Victims: Investigating the Immigration Status Decisions of Post-NRM Victims of Human Trafficking, the Availability of Eligible Benefits and the Related Impact on Victims of Trafficking
Alexandra Williams-Woods and Yvonne Mellon, PhD candidates

Reasserting Agency: Procedural Justice, Victim-Centricity, and the Right to Remedy for Survivors of Slavery and Related Exploitation
Katarina Schwarz and Jing Geng, PhD candidates

Part II: New Anti-Slavery Strategies and Cultures

“A Colossal Work of Art”: Antislavery Methods of Visual Protest From 1845 to Today
Hannah Jeffery, PhD candidate, and Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray

‘They don’t play or run or shout…They’re slaves’: The First Survey of Children’s Literature on Modern Slavery
Charlotte James, PhD candidate

Analysing Slavery through Satellite Technology: How Remote Sensing Could Revolutionise Data Collection to Help End Modern Slavery
Bethany Jackson, PhD student, Dr. Kevin Bales, Dr. Sarah Owen, Dr. Jessica Wardlaw, and Dr. Doreen S. Boyd

Collaborating to Identify, Recover and Support Victims of Modern Slavery
Ben Brewster, PhD candidate

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