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View article: Politics without principle: Potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online
Politics without principle: Potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online Open
Anti-trafficking has been spreading in a novel way, with moral certitude (where human trafficking is deemed uniquely wrong, and this wrongness is taken as a founding principle for anti-trafficking action) accompanied by little or no accoun…
View article: Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again
Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again Open
This Editorial introduces a special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review that investigates where the funding for anti-trafficking work comes from, goes to, and with what effect. It reflects on some of the changes in funding that have occur…
View article: Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK government anti-trafficking funding from 2011 to 2023
Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK government anti-trafficking funding from 2011 to 2023 Open
Anti-trafficking policy discourses and funding trajectories in the UK are developing and expanding in a fractured way. This paper demonstrates that current policies and funding allocations primarily focus on supporting specific ‘victims’ a…
View article: Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine
Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine Open
Drawing on multi-method research, this article demonstrates that the risks of large-scale trafficking due to the war in Ukraine were mitigated by granting Ukrainians more extensive rights than typically afforded to refugees. This shows the…
View article: From passerby to ally: Testing an intervention to challenge attributions for poverty and generate support for poverty‐reducing policies and allyship
From passerby to ally: Testing an intervention to challenge attributions for poverty and generate support for poverty‐reducing policies and allyship Open
Despite the ubiquity of poverty, its causes remain largely misunderstood and many attribute poverty to individual shortcomings. This stigma not only predicts negative physical and mental health outcomes for those living in poverty, it also…
View article: ‘Stick Them to the Cross’: Anti-Trafficking Apps and the Production of Ignorance
‘Stick Them to the Cross’: Anti-Trafficking Apps and the Production of Ignorance Open
There is a long history of ignorance production around trafficking in human beings. A proliferation of anti-trafficking apps plays an important role in the reinforcement of this ignorance. Anti-trafficking apps work in different ways to ot…
View article: Back to Square One: Revisiting How We Analyse the Right of Access to Environmental Information
Back to Square One: Revisiting How We Analyse the Right of Access to Environmental Information Open
The right of access to environmental information has become a key aspect of contemporary efforts to promote environmental governance in the UK. The right is enshrined in international law through the Aarhus Convention which, alongside othe…
View article: Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths
Trafficking in Human Beings: Made and Cut to Measure? Anti-trafficking Docufictions and the Production of Anti-trafficking Truths Open
This article responds to Gozdziak’s (2015: 30) call to explore how the knowledge that informs public debates about human trafficking is generated. Media imagery and narratives play a significant role in constructing both knowledge and igno…
View article: A cross-sectional study of all clinicians’ conflict of interest disclosures to NHS hospital employers in England 2015-2016
A cross-sectional study of all clinicians’ conflict of interest disclosures to NHS hospital employers in England 2015-2016 Open
Objective We set out to document how NHS trusts in the UK record and share disclosures of conflict of interest by their employees. Design Cross-sectional study of responses to a Freedom of Information Act request for Gifts and Hospitality …
View article: Gadflies Biting Science Communication: Engagement, Tricksters, and Ambivalence Online
Gadflies Biting Science Communication: Engagement, Tricksters, and Ambivalence Online Open
Large-scale online science communication and engagement projects can assume an overly ordered and sterile type of online public space or civil society. Against this, the article offers a vision of more carnivalesque spaces for online scien…
View article: Does police size matter? A review of the evidence regarding restructuring police organisations
Does police size matter? A review of the evidence regarding restructuring police organisations Open
Restructuring and merging public sector organisations is often seen as a way to enhance efficiency and efficacy. There is ongoing debate about the impact of police force sizes, structures and mergers as police organisations attempt to adap…
View article: Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance
Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance Open
Dominant anti‐trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adequate response to the interplay between technology, trafficking a…