This book brings together a rich international and cross-sectional collection of articles that examine the current knowledge on gaps in the research realm or intervention development as they relate to our effort to combat human trafficking/modern-day slavery. The anthology includes chapters from established scholars, practitioners, and persons with lived experience.
Modern-day slavery or human trafficking has attracted much attention from around the world in the past few decades and engendered significant growth in counter-trafficking interventions as well as empirical research on related prevalence estimation and program evaluation. However, significant gaps remain in our knowledge on how to address the crime. Understanding these gaps is essential in informing research, policy, and general response protocols. This anthology represents a rich international collection of contributions (both academic and non-academic) that offer a comprehensive overview of the most up-to-date gaps in our response protocols. The articles also offer recommendations that, if acknowledged, could help to impact the prevalence of human trafficking at a local and international level.
This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Human Trafficking.
Introduction Foreword 1. Disrupting Human Trafficking in Canada: A Case Study in the Gaps of Meeting the UN Trafficking Protocols 2. Does Anyone Care? —The Prevalence of Forced Labor Among Kenyan Migrant Workers and the Glaring Need for Better Labor Conditions in GCC Countries 3. The Half-Built Road: Exploring the Impediments to Justice for Victims of Labor Trafficking 4. Critical Gaps in Human Trafficking Research: A Reflection on Six Years of Learning Through the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS) 5. When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The Unravelling of the UK’s Modern Slavery Agenda 6. Toward Journalism on Human Trafficking That is Trauma-Informed, Hope-Based, and Solutions-Oriented 7. Forced Labour and Accountability in Supply Chains: The Role of the Private Sector 8. Mind the Gap(s)? Evidence and UK Policymaking on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery 9. Making Statistics on Human Trafficking Work 10. Practitioner Reflection: Reliance on Informal and Gig Economies Leaves LGBTQ+ Populations with Fewer Economic Choices and Greater Vulnerability to Trafficking 11. A Long Journey: Integrating Caste in Anti-Trafficking Interventions 12. Climate Change, Forced Migration and Trafficking in Persons: Risk of Young Women in Rural Cambodia 13. Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking: Time to Move the Needle on Demand Reduction 14. Hot Soup and a Blanket Don’t Mean You’re Safe from Human Trafficking – Gaps in the System of Receiving and Supporting Women from Ukraine in Poland After the Russian Invasion 15. Criminalizing Human Trafficking Has Not Made a Difference: A Law Enforcement Failure 16. The Canada Declaration for a Human Trafficking and Slavery Free Canada: Justice or Just Words? 17. The Capacity of the International Criminal Court to Fight Human Trafficking 18. How Do Local Efforts Address a Global Issue? Communities Need Good Data
John Winterdyk has published over 40 books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles. He has (co)guest edited six special journal issues and co-edited three trafficking-related books. He is currently working on several human trafficking-related projects, a Special Issue on trafficking, and a new human trafficking-related book. Sheldon Zhang has been active in research on transnational human trafficking and organized crime for more than two decades. His current research projects span from Africa, Asia, to Latin America. He has authored/co-authored 14 books and edited volumes, and more than 150 scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.
