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

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

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

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

Población & 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
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Learning (on) Local Terms

Chronotopos, 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
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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

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

Journal 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
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Ser dependente no Império do Brasil: terra e trabalho em processos judiciais

Población & Sociedad, 2020
Este artigo apresenta um processo que tramitou perante o Tribunal da Relação do Rio de Janeiro, em 1835. A análise desse caso aponta que: a) a forte presença de africanos no Brasil e a existência de um ambiente cultural compartilhado no Atlântico Sul ...
Mariana Armond Dias Paes
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In search of a Rohingya digital diaspora: virtual togetherness, collective identities and political mobilisation

Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2023
Frequently called the most persecuted minority in the world, the Rohingyas have suffered systematic violence and oppression in Myanmar since the 1970s. Today, the vast majority of the nearly three million Rohingyas are in exile, escaping state-sponsored ...
Anas Ansar, Abu Faisal Md. Khaled
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

Social Inclusion, 2017
There has been much discussed and written on the benefits of entrepreneurship education, as well as the importance of early access to this type of learning.
Christina Bain
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