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The UK’s Modern Slavery Legislation: An Early Assessment of Progress [PDF]

open access: yesSocial Inclusion, 2017
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
exaly   +8 more sources

Understanding the co‐occurrence of tree loss and modern slavery to improve efficacy of conservation actions and policies

open access: yesConservation Science and Practice, 2020
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
exaly   +2 more sources

Globalization and Modern Slavery

open access: yesPolitics and Governance, 2019
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
exaly   +3 more sources

‘Bound Coolies’ and Other Indentured Workers in the Caribbean: Implications for debates about human trafficking and modern slavery

open access: yesAnti-Trafficking Review, 2017
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
exaly   +3 more sources

Uma análise do perfil de trabalhadores da construção naval nos mapas estatísticos do Ministério da Marinha do Império do Brasil (1847-1875)

open access: yesTrabajos y Comunicaciones, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Subjugation by Labelling. Analysing the Semantics of Subservience in a Fugitive Slave Case from Eighteenth-Century Germany

open access: yesÖsterreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2023
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
doaj   +1 more source

Castigos paternalistas. Esclavos, amos y Estado en la Audiencia de Quito y en el Ecuador, 1730-1851

open access: yesPoblación & Sociedad, 2022
En este capítulo, se analizan las relaciones punitivas establecidas entre esclavos, esclavistas y autoridades coloniales desde la perspectiva del paternalismo.
Christian De Vito
doaj   +1 more source

Learning (on) Local Terms

open access: yesChronotopos, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

Calling the Question: The Role of Ministries of Presence and Polity Principles in the Struggle for LGBTQIA+ Inclusion, Ordination, and Marriage in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) and Its Predecessor Denominations

open access: yesReligions, 2022
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
doaj   +1 more source

From solidarity to resistance: host communities’ evolving response to the Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh

open access: yesJournal of International Humanitarian Action, 2021
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
doaj   +1 more source

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