Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms

Survivors, Practitioners and the Future of Global Interventions
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-4473-7772-6
Verlag: Bristol University Press

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm

This timely and critical volume calls for a fundamental rethinking of how human trafficking is understood and addressed. Bringing together voices of survivors, activists, practitioners and researchers, this collection interrogates why countless interventions by governments, NGOs and international bodies continue to fail.

Merging lived experience with critical scholarship, it offers fresh perspectives on the deep-rooted structural issues that fuel human trafficking such as poverty, racism, patriarchy and neoliberalism. The collection poses transformative ideas to reshape global anti-trafficking responses toward real, lasting justice and change.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Elliott, Sarah

Smith, Megan Denise

Weitere Mitwirkende

Woworuntu, Shandra

Reitano, Tuesday

Healy, Claire

McAdam, Marika

Molnar, Petra

Joseph, David

Yohannes, Hyab Teklehaimanot

Yemane, Tesfalem

Do Ngoc, Thao

McQuade, Aidan

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Strafrecht Kriminologie, Strafverfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: For Whose Benefit? Critical Perspectives on Addressing Human Trafficking - Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith

Part I: Everything You Should Know (Or Un-Know) About Anti-Trafficking

1. The Life of 'Candy': Surviving Human Trafficking and Anti-Trafficking – Shandra Woworuntu

2. Everything Everywhere All at Once: A Status Check of Contemporary Human Exploitation – Tuesday Reitano and Giulia D'Amico

3. A Step in the Right Direction: Could Trafficking in Persons Be in Decline? – Claire Healy

4. The Estrangement of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol from its Parent Treaty against Transnational Organised Crime – Marika McAdam

5. Deadly Digital Borders: Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence as a Driver of Human Trafficking – Petra Molnar

Part II: Anti-Trafficking at the Crossroads: The Future of Human Trafficking Interventions

6. From the Ashes of the Desert: A Survivor’s Call for Reckoning and Reimagination – David Joseph

7. Embracing Complexity in Counter-Trafficking Policy and Practice – Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith

8. State as Refugee Trafficker? Reflections from the Margins – Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Tesfalem Habte Yemane

9. From Risk Scores to Rights: Governing Artificial Intelligence in Anti-Trafficking through a Human Rights–Based Approach – Do Ngoc Thao

10. Justice Against Power: Marshalling a Credible Response for Slavery Eradication – Aidan McQuade

Über Autor(innen)

Smith, Megan Denise
Megan Denise Smith is an independent consultant and expert in gender-based violence currently working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Elliott, Sarah
Sarah Elliott is an international human rights lawyer and senior protection specialist with over a decade of experience working for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Sarah Elliott is an international human rights lawyer and senior protection specialist with over a decade of experience working for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Megan Denise Smith is an independent consultant and expert in gender-based violence currently working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).