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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress [PDF]
In 2015, the Westminster UK government introduced a Modern Slavery Act described by its proponents as ‘world-leading’. This description was challenged at the time both inside and outside the UK.
Gary Craig
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Locations where populations are most reliant on forests and their ecosystem services for subsistence and development are also areas where modern slavery persists.
Bethany Jackson+2 more
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Globalization and Modern Slavery
This article presents a cross-national comparative analysis of the relationship between different dimensions of globalization and modern slavery. It argues that both the economic and political dimensions of globalization are strongly associated with ...
Todd Landman
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Under systems of indenture in the Caribbean, Europeans such as Irish, Scots and Portuguese, as well as Asians, primarily Indians, Chinese and Indonesians, were recruited, often under false pretences, and transported to the ‘New World’, where they were ...
Kamala Kempadoo
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Pouco se sabe acerca dos sujeitos que atuaram na construção e manutenção de embarcaçãoes. Visando contribuir à superação de tal déficite, o artigo a seguir, ao produzir uma história vista de baixo, buscou compreender quem foramos trabalhadores que, no ...
Diego Schibelinski
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This contribution uses a set of documents dealing with the case of a fugitive slave named Samuel Johannes in Upper Lusatia in 1754 to demonstrate the merits of a historical semantics–inspired approach.
Josef Köstlbauer
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Castigos paternalistas. Esclavos, amos y Estado en la Audiencia de Quito y en el Ecuador, 1730-1851
En este capítulo, se analizan las relaciones punitivas establecidas entre esclavos, esclavistas y autoridades coloniales desde la perspectiva del paternalismo.
Christian De Vito
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This article compares two manuscript dictionaries, that of John Bradby Blake and Johan Pontin. These dictionaries are Cantonese-English and Cantonese-Swedish respectively, and were both created as a result of a stay in the trading hub of Canton in the ...
Lisa Hellman
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This article reflects upon how LGBTQIA+ Christians and their allies within the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and its predecessor denominations ‘called the question’ on their right to and responsibility for membership, ordination, and marriage by ...
David Brandon Smith
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Bangladesh sets an admirable example of solidarity with the Rohingya refugees from Myanmar by hosting more than a million Rohingyas despite its resource constraints.
Anas Ansar, Abu Faisal Md. Khaled
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