Learning from Failure in Human Trafficking Law, Policy and Practice

Learning from Failure in Human Trafficking Law, Policy and Practice: An Introduction
Silvia Rodríguez-López and Amy Weatherburn

Part I. Conceptual Failures: Overcoming Definitional Limits on Effective Action

1. Human Trafficking for Labour Exploitation: A Problematic Conceptualisation and its Repercussions in the Identification of Victims  
Giovanna Leuzzi and Sandra Camacho Padilla

2. Child Criminal Exploitation and Human Trafficking: Tackling Conceptual Conundrums 
Gillian Kane and Andrew Chisholm

3. Prostitution and Human Trafficking: They Are Not the Same, Nor Will Exploitation End by Abolishing Sex Work 
Mariona Llobet-Anglí

4. Human Trafficking in the Digital Age: Mapping the Current Criminological Landscape and Charting Future Frontiers
Gabriele Baratto, Beatrice Rigon, and Beatrice Pattaro

Part II. Operational Failures: Filling the Gaps in Identification, Protection, and Justice

5. Beyond the Trafficker-Victim Binary: Criminal Exploitation and the Limits of Victim Identification in Cross-Border Drug Cases in Chile
Roberto Dufraix Tapia, María José del Solar, Nury Concha Palacios and Francesca Varela Sandoval

6. The Survivor-Perpetrator Paradox in the ICC’s Dominic Ongwen Case: Trafficking, Coercion, and Culpability  
Ekin Deniz Uzun

7. Beyond Criminalisation: Lessons from Europe’s Non-Punishment Failures for Southeast Asia’s Cyber-Scam Victims
Julia Muraskiewicz

8. Educating Healthcare Providers about Human Trafficking: Challenges and Opportunities
Gloria Kirwan, Ann Mara and JP O’Sullivan
 

Part III. Structural Failures: Innovating System Design, Recovery, and Survivor Engagement

9. Re-positioning the Role of Information and Communication Technologies and Artificial Intelligence in the Fight against Human Trafficking  
Karen Latricia Hough, Theodora Tsikrika, Despoina Chatzakou, Theoni Spathi and Tatiana Duarte Nicolau

10. Sex Trafficking of Romanian Women in the UK: Lessons from Post-Trafficking Trajectories and Survivors’ Perspectives on Recovery
Maria Turda, Nicky Stanley, Sarah Shorrock, Emily Cooper and Lis Bates

11. The Recovery and Reflection Period: Analysis and Proposals amidst the Transformation of the EU Anti-Trafficking Framework
Georgina Rodríguez Muñoz

12. Lived Experience as Expertise: Making Inclusion in Exploitation Research the Rule Rather than the Exception
Cherisse Francis, Gillian Kane, Maria Turda, Yelyzaveta Monastyrova, Fatima Ali and Jo Petitt

Biography

Silvia Rodríguez-López is a Senior Research Fellow in Criminal Law at the University of A Coruña, where she presented her thesis on human trafficking-related corruption. She has also carried out studies on criminal exploitation and the non-punishment clause, labour exploitation, and women convicted for trafficking.

Amy Weatherburn is FWO Senior Postdoctoral Fellow at the KU Leuven Institute for European Law with expertise in human trafficking, forced labour, (labour) migration and fundamental rights law. Her current research focuses on tackling labour exploitation beyond criminal law and providing access to remedy to migrant workers.