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The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse (2024)
Book Chapter
Green, S., & Heys, A. (2024). The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse. In M. Krambia Kapardis, C. Clark, A. Warria, & M. Dion (Eds.), Palgrave Handbook on Modern Slavery (359-380). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-58614-9_18

Victims of modern slavery are poorly understood and badly counted. This is because modern slavery is a vague, contested and largely invisible crime. When it does reach the political and public conscience it is usually in the context of illegal migrat... Read More about The Case of the “Missing Victims” of Modern Slavery: A Comparison with Domestic Abuse.

The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War (2024)
Book
Burnard, T., Hart, E., & Houllemare, M. (Eds.). (2024). The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197622605.001.0001

The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years’ War contains thirty-eight essays that provide up-to-date scholarship on all aspects of the globally important Seven Years’ War (1756–1763). The volume carefully examines the three major areas of conflict in the... Read More about The Oxford Handbook of the Seven Years War.

Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence (2024)
Journal Article
Heys, A., Veldhuizen Ochodničanová, E., Veldhuizen Ochodničanová, E. M., & Muraszkiewicz, J. (2024). Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence. Journal of Human Trafficking, Enslavement and Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, 5(1), 275-303. https://doi.org/10.7590/266644724X17187028804913

This paper analyses the motivation behind military commanders’ perpetration, facilitation and tolerance of conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV), and considers the decision making behind the imposing of punitive measures.
It begins by investigati... Read More about Behind Battle Lines Analysing Commanders' Decisions Around Conflict-Related Sexual Violence And Exploitation And Their Penal Consequence.

Child Trafficking and the Complexities of Implementing the CRC in West Africa (2024)
Book Chapter
Ogunniyi, D. (2024). Child Trafficking and the Complexities of Implementing the CRC in West Africa. In S. S. F. Regilme Jr. (Ed.), Children's rights in crisis: Multidisciplinary, transnational, and comparative perspectives. Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170149.00018

Introduction
Although numerous studies have been conducted on trafficking in persons in recent years (Hodge 2014; Hoffman and Abidde 2021; Stoyanova 2017; Weitzer 2015), the global and institutional forces reinforcing child trafficking in West Afric... Read More about Child Trafficking and the Complexities of Implementing the CRC in West Africa.

Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance (2024)
Journal Article
Shirgholami, Z., Cole, R., & Aitken, J. (in press). Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance. Journal of Supply Chain Management, https://doi.org/10.1111/jscm.12321

Labor exploitation persists within global supply chains regardless of governmental legislation, private governance mechanisms, and increasing consumer demands. Notably, non-commercial organizations have been lauded as potential facilitators of improv... Read More about Shifting the perspective on labor exploitation: Non-commercial organizations’ contribution toward supply chain governance.

"Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom (2024)
Thesis
Nghishitende, N. J. "Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867012

This thesis provides insights into the journeys of women who have left situations classified as modern slavery and human trafficking (MSHT) and are remodelling their lives in the UK. Employing critical methodologies, this thesis utilises narrative an... Read More about "Freedom is a constant struggle”: Women’s journeys after modern slavery in the United Kingdom.

Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunniyi, D. (2024). Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups. Anti-Trafficking Review, 22, 74-90. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201224225

Although organised criminal networks and non-state armed groups (NSAGs) have historically exploited conflict situations to commit various crimes, the extent of human trafficking by these entities in the Sahel has barely been interrogated in academic... Read More about Armed Conflict-induced Displacement and Human Trafficking in the Sahel: Organised crime, vulnerabilities, and the accountability of non-state armed groups.

Submission of Evidence to Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership (2024)
Report
Fleury, S. (2024). Submission of Evidence to Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership. Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership

Introduction:
This paper considers the human rights consequences of two aspects of asylum accommodation: the types of accommodation used for temporary housing, and the choice to disperse people to such accommodation. It includes a focus on child mig... Read More about Submission of Evidence to Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Asylum Accommodation and UK-Rwanda partnership.

The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales (2024)
Thesis
Colley, S. The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4867065

This thesis explores the challenges of investigating multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE). There is a lack of overall knowledge of who the offenders are within this form of sexual offending against children. This research addresses this... Read More about The investigation and representation of multi-perpetrator child sexual exploitation (CSE) in England and Wales.

Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25] (2024)
Book
Burnard, T., & O'Shaughnessy, A. J. (in press). Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25]. Yale University Press

At the time of the American Revolution (1765–83), the British Empire had colonies in India, Africa, the Caribbean, the Pacific, Canada, Ireland, and Scotland. The thirteen rebellious American colonies accounted for half of the total number of provinc... Read More about Republic and Empire : Crisis, Revolution, and America’s Early Independence [due16/9/25].

Settler Colonialism and early American History (2024)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T., & Delahaye, A. (2024). Settler Colonialism and early American History. In E. Peyrol-Kleiber, L. Roper, B. Van Ruymbeke, & A. Delahaye (Eds.), Agents of European Overseas Empires: Private Colonisers, 1450-1800 (153-178). Manchester University Press. https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526167347.00016

Agents of European overseas empires involves contributors who specialise on often overlooked aspects of imperial endeavour: 'private' European interests, companies, merchants or courtiers, who conducted their own activities both with and without the... Read More about Settler Colonialism and early American History.

Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law (2024)
Journal Article
Ogunniyi, D. (2024). Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law. Human Rights Law Review, 24(1), Article ngad043. https://doi.org/10.1093/hrlr/ngad043

Although climate change is among the main ecological crisis the world is grappling with today, relevant discourses on the subject often focus exclusively on the existential threats it presents ignoring other associated risks, including how it exacerb... Read More about Climate Change and the Modern Slavery Conundrum in Africa: Reimagining the Relevance of Human Rights Law.

Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery (2024)
Journal Article
Spicksley, J. M. (2024). Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery. Journal of global slavery, 9(3), 336-371. https://doi.org/10.1163/2405836X-00903012

For most scholars of slavery, the pairing of the terms ‘voluntary’ and ‘slavery’ remains problematic. The dominant model of slavery defines it as an involuntary status, in which people—according to the liberal model of ownership—were reduced to ‘thin... Read More about Voluntary Slavery and the Meaning of Slavery.

Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations (2023)
Journal Article
Burnard, T., & Coffey, J. (2023). Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations. Histories of People and Place, 18(1-2), 43-65. https://doi.org/10.1080/28334299.2023.2283117

Slave registers are a major source for the study of British colonial slavery in its final two decades, yet they have been little used by historians. The article employs two case studies to show how these records allow us to reconstruct a collective p... Read More about Slave Registers and British Guiana: Life and Resistance on Slave Plantations.

Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions (2023)
Thesis
Baker, J. Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4500549

In 1986, Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, received a letter from a former child migrant called Mary, who had been deported to Australia at the age of six. Mary pleaded with Humphreys to help her be reunited with her birth family.... Read More about Reconciling British child deportation to Australia 1913-1970: apologies, memorials, and family reunions.

'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya (2023)
Thesis
Farah, F. 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4571172

My research deals with slavery and its legacies in Mombasa, Kenya. The ethnic tensions that exist today in Mombasa have their roots in two historical legacies, slavery and colonialism. Seeds of inequalities planted during those two periods still dict... Read More about 'Not quickly cleansed' Bids for Freedom by Former Slaves in Mombasa and the Coastal Strip of Kenya.

The Other British Colonies (2023)
Book Chapter
Burnard, T. (2023). The Other British Colonies. In W. Klooster (Ed.), The Enlightenment and the British Colonies (248-68). Cambridge University Press. https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108567671

Britain had a substantial Atlantic empire during the era of the Atlantic Revolutions. Only some of their Atlantic colonies joined in the colonial rebellion that led to the creation of the United States. The end of the American Revolution signaled a n... Read More about The Other British Colonies.