From Conflict to Modern Slavery - The Drivers and the Deterrents

From Conflict to Modern Slavery draws on first-hand accounts to consider how conflict can facilitate modern slavery and how a person's vulnerability interacts with overarching structures. The book explores how, with individual agency restricted by conflict coupled with disruption to support networks, migrants can become vulnerable to exploitation.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction and Current Context


• 2: Defining Slavery and Conflict


• 3: Current Understandings of Conflict and Modern Slavery


• 4: Fleeing Conflict to Modern Slavery


• 5: Fleeing Conflict to Safety


• 6: Generating the Conditions for Risk


• 7: From Victim Blaming to Victim Agency


• 8: Conclusion

About the author

Alicia Heys is a Lecturer in Modern Slavery, Wilberforce Institute, University of Hull. She was awarded her PhD in Social Justice at the University of Hull in 2019. She works on issues of modern slavery, human trafficking, and labour exploitation, and has a particular interest in issues of agency, representation, and policy. Alicia works closely with practitioners to shape her research and share findings so that they have maximum input on the ground.

Summary

From Conflict to Modern Slavery draws on first-hand accounts to consider how conflict can facilitate modern slavery and how a person's vulnerability interacts with overarching structures. The book explores how, with individual agency restricted by conflict coupled with disruption to support networks, migrants can become vulnerable to exploitation.

Product details

• Authors: Alicia Heys, Dr Alicia (Lecturer in Modern Slavery Heys
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.05.2023
• EAN: 9780192846549
• ISBN: 978-0-19-284654-9
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Clarendon Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Human Rights, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Human rights & civil liberties law, LAW / International, LAW / Public, LAW / Civil Rights, LAW / Emigration & Immigration, immigration law, Legal aspects of criminology, Law: Human rights and civil liberties, Public international law: human rights, International human rights law, Criminology: legal aspects