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Call for Papers: Anti-Trafficking Review Issue 2, to be published Autumn 2013, Special Issue: 'Human Rights at the Border'
Call for Papers: Anti-Trafficking Review
Issue 2, to be published Autumn 2013
Special Issue: 'Human Rights at the Border'
Deadline for Submission: 31 December 2012
It
is hard to research, and indeed fight for, human rights in border
regions. By their nature borders are often geographically remote and
have heightened security controls. They are often zones of
exceptionalism, either officially exempted from domestic legal and
constitutional protections or with few mechanisms for oversight and
accountability of state actions. This exceptionalism as well as
heightened border security is increasing risks in the migration process,
especially in women's migration. Many people decide that despite
barriers and risks they must cross a border for survival, either in
terms of economics or safety, and definitions of movement such as
trafficking, smuggling, irregular migration and others are irrelevant to
them. In many cases, at the point of a border crossing, it is not
possible for practitioners to tell if people are being strictly
trafficked or whether they fall in another category, yet the risks
created by border systems and the violations experienced by individuals
at borders are not to be left out of conversations on trafficking and of
migrants' rights more broadly.
The Anti-Trafficking Review calls
for papers for a Special Issue 'Human Rights at the Border'. Papers may
address: criminalisation of irregular migration, operational
understandings of human rights, (non)identification of violations, human
rights implications of screening for potential trafficking cases,
transparency and accountability, discriminatory immigration policies,
privatisation of immigration functions, trafficking and migration
prevention policies, links between increased border security and
trafficking, interceptions and push-backs, broker/agents' rights, and
extraterritoriality. The Review welcomes articles that engage
empirically grounded analysis of rights-based border-related programs.
Also papers can more broadly address how borders and national security
measures make migration more expensive and difficult, increasing risks,
and, conversely, papers can address positive aspects of border
interventions that may uphold human rights.
The
Review promotes a human rights based approach to anti-trafficking, and
it aims to explore the issue in its broader context including gender
analyses and intersections with labour and migrant rights. The journal
offers a space for dialogue for those seeking to communicate new ideas
and findings. Academics, practitioners and advocates, working for, with
and including trafficked persons and migrants are invited to submit
articles.
- Deadline for submission: 31 December 2012
- Word limit on articles: 4,000, including footnotes and abstract
Special Issue Guest Editor: Dr. Sverre Molland, The Australian National University
Editor: Rebecca Napier-Moore
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