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Current Trends in Slavery Studies in Brazil [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
Slavery Studies are one of the most consolidated fields in Brazilian historiography with various discussions on issues like slave agency, slavery and law, slavery and capitalism, slave families, demography of slavery, transatlantic slave trade, abolition

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Slavery and Other Forms of Strong Asymmetrical Dependencies [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
This volume approaches the phenomenon of slavery and other types of strong asymmetrical dependencies from two methodologically and theoretically distinct perspectives: semantics and lexical fields.

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Consuming Modern Slavery

open access: yes, 2018
This preliminary study investigates how consumers understand modern slavery and their role in perpetuating and/or eradicating modern slavery, bringing together a unique collaboration of investigators who are at the forefront of consumer research in ...
Carrington, Michal   +2 more
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Slavery and Bondage in Asia, 1550–1850

open access: yes, 2022
This book offers an Asia-centred story of bondage and coerced labour. Spanning the western Indian Ocean to Japan, and the 16th to the 19th century, it follows coercion from the regulation of sales to post-abolition labour contracts.

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Providing Protection or Enabling Exploitation? Orphanages and Modern Slavery in Post-Disaster Contexts

open access: yes, 2021
Orphanages are a common child protection response to humanitarian crises spurred on by media and NGO depictions of the disaster orphan. Yet, decades of research attests to the harm that orphanage care can cause.
van Doore, Kathryn, Nhep, Rebecca
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From Developing to Under Developing Economies - The Storyline of Slavery and Nowadays Consumption [PDF]

open access: yesProceeding Papers (BASIQ International Conference), 2023
Even though many individuals may perceive slavery as a past memory, it nonetheless has a significant impact on society today on a multitude of levels. The modern slavery phenomenon is the consequence of past slavery as it currently exists. Its
Oana-Maria Cozma
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Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the Fight Against Human Trafficking

open access: yesSocial 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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In search of a Rohingya digital diaspora: virtual togetherness, collective identities and political mobilisation

open access: yesHumanities & 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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Comparative and Global Framing of Enslavement

open access: yes, 2023
Over the last two decades, social scientists, legal scholars, human rights activists, and historians, have sought common conceptual grounds in the study of enslavement, thus forging a new perspective that comprises historical and contemporary forms of ...

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Revisiting the Profitability of Slavery

open access: yes, 2023
This article revisits the scholarly debate on the profitability of historical slavery. The article examines the case of the antebellum US South, using slave hire rates as a proxy for the net rent on investments in slavery. It employs empirical data and a
Klas Rönnbäck, Rönnbäck, Klas,
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