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“I bought you. You are my wife”: “Modern Slavery” and Forced Marriage

open access: yesJournal of Human Trafficking, 2022
Forced marriage is identified as a serious global challenge, and has recently been linked to modern slavery. In this article we seek to understand how slavery, institutions and practices similar to slavery, and other forms of exploitation are linked to ...
H. McCabe, Lauren Eglen
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Human Trafficking: Fighting the Illicit Economy with the Legitimate Economy

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2015
Since the beginning of research on human trafficking, there has been attention paid to the challenges surrounding the illicit economy. In creating new strategies and initiatives on combatting human trafficking, there needs to be more discussion ...
Louise Shelley, Christina Bain
doaj   +1 more source

Modern Slavery Disclosure Regulation and Global Supply Chains: Insights from Stakeholder Narratives on the UK Modern Slavery Act

open access: yesJournal of Business Ethics, 2021
The purpose of this article is to problematise a particular social transparency and disclosure regulation in the UK, that transcend national boundaries in order to control (modern) slavery in supply chains operating in the developing world.
Muhammad Azizul Islam   +1 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Religion and Politics in Modern Britain [PDF]

open access: yes, 2003
The appearance of J. R. Oldfield's study, Popular politics and British anti-slavery, first published by Manchester University Press in 1995, now in paperback and therefore available for a student market, is much to be welcomed.
Hall, C
core   +1 more source

A Review of Modern Slavery in Britain: Understanding the Unique Experience of British Victims and Why it Matters

open access: yesJournal of Victimology and Victim Justice, 2022
This article offers an original contribution to the field of victimization studies by investigating the current context of, and responses to, British nationals who are victims of modern slavery in the UK (BVs).
Alicia Heys   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Preventing the Criminalisation of Children Who Have Been Victims of Group-Based Sexual Exploitation Involving Grooming Tactics—Understanding Child Sexual Exploitation as Enslavement [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Recently the United Kingdom has been beset by a moral panic concerning gangs grooming girls for sexual exploitation. This moral panic derived from a number of well-publicised cases, the most infamous of which took place in Rochdale, Greater Manchester ...
Arthur, Raymond, Down, Lisa
core   +1 more source

Patterns of Enslavement and Economic Oppression of Central Virginia [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
I address how anthropologists can identify the patterns and development of slavery and economic oppression through archaeology and the visualization of Virginia enslavement. I focus on the enslaved people of James Madison\u27s Montpelier.
Bedwell, Hannah
core   +1 more source

John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This article traces the rise of John Lamont, a Highland planter in nineteenth-century Trinidad. The island was subsumed into the British Empire in 1802, the third wave of colonization in the British West Indies and just thirty-two years before slavery ...
Mullen, Stephen
core   +1 more source

Debate: Forced Labour, Slavery and Human Trafficking: When do definitions matter?

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2015
We can spend a lot of time debating the connections or essential differences between the concepts of trafficking, forced labour, slavery and modern slavery, or slavery-like practices.
Roger Plant
doaj   +1 more source

Modern slavery statements and the UK's largest housebuilding companies: an exploratory research paper

open access: yesProperty Management, 2022
PurposeModern slavery has been identified as a problem in the construction industry, but the issue has received very limited attention in the academic literature.
P. Jones, D. Comfort
semanticscholar   +1 more source

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