This volume contains 10 essays by UK researchers and specialists in non-governmental organizations researching modern slavery, who examine the development of law, policy, and practice relating to modern slavery in the UK. They discuss the causes of slavery, the failure of the rule of law in enabling slavery to continue, and the reforms needed to reduce and eliminate slavery; UK policy responses to modern slavery and factors that influenced the development of the Modern Slavery Act 2015; the system of regulation and enforcement constructed around modern slavery; modern slavery legislation across the UK, including the Modern Slavery Act and the Human Trafficking and Exploitation Acts in Northern Ireland and Scotland; child trafficking; the situation of people on the Overseas Domestic Worker visa, to examine the limited options available to trafficked people through the National Referral Mechanism for identifying victims of trafficking; the criminalization of potential trafficked cannabis gardeners; the role of business in modern slavery; migrants who experience severe labor exploitation; and the transnational response to trafficking in a European context. Distributed in North America by University of Chicago Press. Annotation ©2019 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)
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"Timely and important It is difficult to do justice to the breadth and depth of expertise, information and analysis in this densely packed book." Institute of Race Relations Weekly Digest, 22 May - 4 June 2019 "A truly thought-provoking collection of chapters on the recent journey the U.K has been on with regard to modern slavery." David Gadd, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice Books "Combining diverse commentators dealing with 'modern slavery', this book provides a sweeping criticism of the UK response. Several years after the Modern Slavery Act was enacted, it's a timely call for improvement." Sasha Jesperson, Centre for the Study of Modern Slavery, St. Mary's University
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| Editorial introduction: the modern slavery agenda: policy, politics and practice |
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One Modern slavery in global context: ending the political economy of forced labour and slavery |
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Two The UK's response to modern slavery: law, policy and politics |
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Three Defeating `modern slavery', reducing exploitation? The organisational and regulatory challenge |
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Four Class Acts? A comparative analysis of modem slavery legislation across the UK |
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Five Child trafficking in the UK |
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Six Human trafficking: addressing the symptom, not the cause |
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Seven Still punishing the wrong people: the criminalisation of potential trafficked cannabis gardeners |
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Eight Modern slavery and transparency in supply chains: the role of business |
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Nine Migrant illegality, slavery and exploitative work |
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Ten The UK's approach to tackling modern slavery in a European context |
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Gary Craig is a Visiting Professor at the Law School, University of Newcastle upon Tyne and at the University of York. He previously worked as a community development activist. He has researched and published widely in the fields of poverty, race and ethnicity and modern slavery; He co-convenes the national network Modern Slavery Research Consortium.
Alex Balch is Professor, Department of Politics, University of Liverpool. He is also Associate Head of School for Research and Impact and Co-Director, the Centre for the Study of International Slavery. He has researched and published widely on forced labour, migration, support for survivors and on the organizational systems in the UK such as the GLAA and Border Agency.
Dr Hannah Lewis is Vice-Chancellors Fellow, at the University of Sheffield. Her research interests include community and social relationships, migration and refugee studies; immigration and asylum policy; forced labour and modern slavery, faith and anti-trafficking; and the ethics and methodologies of research with migrant populations. Her work has been published in many journals and she has contributed to three books.
Louise Waite is Professor of Human Geography at the University of Leeds, UK. Her research interests focus on discourses of modern slavery, unfree/forced labour and exploitative work among asylum seekers and refugees. She has published in a range of peer reviewed journals and in recent collaborative books
