Revisiting the Law and Governance of Trafficking, Forced Labor and Modern Slavery
Cambridge Studies in Law and Society Series

In the decades following the globalization of the world economy, trafficking, forced labor and modern slavery have emerged as significant global problems. States negotiated the Palermo Protocol in 2000 under which they agreed to criminalize trafficking, primarily understood as an issue of serious organized crime. Sixteen years later, leading academics, activists and policy makers from international organizations come together in this edited volume and adopt an inter-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder approach to revisit trafficking through the lens of labor migration and extreme exploitation and, in the process, rethink the law and governance of trafficking. This volume considers many key factors, including the evolving international law on trafficking, the relationship between trafficking, slavery, indenture and domestic migration law and policy as well as newly emergent techniques of governance, including indicators, all with a view to furthering prospects for lasting economic justice in a globalized world.

Introduction. From sex panic to extreme exploitation: revisiting the law of 'human trafficking' Prabha Kotiswaran; Part I. Revisiting the Text and Context of Article 3: 1. Trafficked and exploited: the urgent need for coherence in international law Michael Dottridge; 2. The international legal definition 'trafficking in persons': scope and application Anne Gallagher; 3. Contemporary debt bondage, 'self-exploitation' and the limits of the trafficking definition Janie Chuang; 4. Subjectivity of coercion: workers' experiences with trafficking in the United States Denise Brennan; Part II. Anti-Trafficking Law: A Legal Realist Critique: 5. The right to locomotion? Trafficking, slavery and the state Julia O'Connell Davidson; 6. Anti-trafficking and the new indenture Janet Halley; 7. Immigration controls and 'modern-day slavery' Chantal Thomas; 8. Representing, counting, valuing: managing definitional uncertainty in the law of trafficking Kerry Rittich; Part III. Trafficking and New Forms of Governance: 9. Counting the uncountable: constructing trafficking through measurement Sally Engle Merry; 10. Addressing HIV/AIDS at the intersection of anti-trafficking and health law and policy Aziza Ahmed; 11. Brokered subjects and sexual investability Elizabeth Bernstein; Part IV. New Directions in Anti-Trafficking Law: The Rule of the ILO: 12. Raising the bar: the adoption of new ILO standards against forced labour Beate Andrees and Amanda Aikman; 13. Trafficking and forced labour: filling in the gaps with the adoption of the supplementary ILO standards, 2014 Lee Swepston; 14. Combating labour exploitation in the global economy: the need for a differentiated approach Roger Plant; 15. Human trafficking and forced labour: should companies be liable? Zuzanna Muskat-Gorska; Part V. Rethinking Trafficking through Migration Policy: 16. The paradox of 'legality': temporary migrant worker programs and vulnerability to trafficking Hila Shamir; 17. The indentured mobility of migrant domestic workers: the case of Dubai Rhacel Salazar Parreñas and Rachel Silvey; 18. Migrants, unfree labour, and the legal construction of domestic servitude: migrant domestic workers in the UK Judy Fudge and Kendra Strauss.

Prabha Kotiswaran is Reader in Law and Social Justice at the Dickson Poon School of Law, King's College London. In 2014, she was awarded the Leverhulme Prize for Law. She co-edits the Open Democracy blog 'Beyond Trafficking and Slavery' and is on the advisory board of the Department for International Development-International Labour Organization (DFID-ILO) project Work in Freedom (2013–18) on the prevention of the trafficking of women in South Asia. Her main areas of research include criminal law, transnational criminal law, sociology of law, postcolonial theory and feminist legal theory.