Bridging the Gaps in Our Efforts to Combat Human Trafficking

Foreword

Sheldon Zhang and John Winterdyk

Introduction

John Winterdyk and Sheldon Zhang

1. Disrupting Human Trafficking in Canada: A Case Study in the Gaps of Meeting the UN Trafficking Protocols

John Winterdyk and Alexandra Ford

2. Does Anyone Care? — The Prevalence of Forced Labor Among Kenyan Migrant Workers and the Glaring Need for Better Labor Conditions in GCC Countries

Sheldon Zhang, Nell Compernolle, Kyle Vincent, Sarah Lord, and Kareem Kysia

3. The Half-Built Road: Exploring the Impediments to Justice for Victims of Labor Trafficking

Chase Childress, Amy Farrell, Amelia Wagner, Shawn Bhimani, and Kayse Lee Maass

4. Critical Gaps in Human Trafficking Research: A Reflection on Six Years of Learning Through the Program to End Modern Slavery (PEMS)

Abigail Long and Casey Branchini Risko

5. When Victims of Modern Slavery Became Offenders: The Unravelling of the UK’s Modern Slavery Agenda

David Gadd and Rose Broad

6. Toward Journalism on Human Trafficking That is Trauma-Informed, Hope-Based, and

Solutions-Oriented

Kirsten Foot

7. Forced Labour and Accountability in Supply Chains: The Role of the Private Sector

Matt Friedman

8. Mind the Gap(s)? Evidence and UK Policymaking on Human Trafficking and Modern Slavery

Alex Balch and Olivia Hesketh

9. Making Statistics on Human Trafficking Work

Jan Van Dijk

10. Practitioner Reflection: Reliance on Informal and Gig Economies Leaves LGBTQ+ Populations with Fewer Economic Choices and Greater Vulnerability to Trafficking

Mark Kavenagh, Mackenzie Stoeltje, and Meredith Dank

11. A Long Journey: Integrating Caste in Anti-Trafficking Interventions

Tarini J. Shipurkar, Shakila Khatoon, Mayank Sinha, and Pradeep Narayanan

12. Climate Change, Forced Migration and Trafficking in Persons: Risk of Young Women in Rural Cambodia

Puthborey Phon and Rumi Kato Price

13. Primary Prevention of Sex Trafficking: Time to Move the Needle on Demand Reduction

Marcel van der Watt

14. Hot Soup and a Blanket Don’t Mean You’re Safe from Human Trafficking – Gaps in the System of Receiving and Supporting Women from Ukraine in Poland After the Russian Invasion

Zbigniew Lasocik

15. Criminalizing Human Trafficking Has Not Made a Difference: A Law Enforcement Failure

Yvon Dandurand

16. The Canada Declaration for a Human Trafficking and Slavery Free Canada: Justice or Just Words?

Holly Wood

17. The Capacity of the International Criminal Court to Fight Human Trafficking

Filip Vojta

18. How Do Local Efforts Address a Global Issue? Communities Need Good Data

Annjanette R. Alejano-Steele, Amanda A. Finger, and Kara Napolitano

Biography

John Winterdyk has published over 40 books and dozens of peer-reviewed articles. He has (co)guest edited six special journal issues and co-edited three trafficking-related books. He is currently working on several human trafficking-related projects, a Special Issue on trafficking, and a new human trafficking-related book.

Sheldon Zhang has been active in research on transnational human trafficking and organized crime for more than two decades. His current research projects span from Africa, Asia, to Latin America. He has authored/co-authored 14 books and edited volumes, and more than 150 scholarly journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports.