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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.

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: 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.

Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement, by Andrea Nicholson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xix, 233 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 9781316510803 (2023)
Journal Article
Heys, A. (online). Bearing Witness: Contemporary Slave Narratives and the Global Antislavery Movement, by Andrea Nicholson, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2022, xix, 233 pp., £75 (Hardback), ISBN 9781316510803. Slavery & Abolition, 44(3), 577-579. https://doi.org/10.1080/0144039X.2023.2239015

The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood (2023)
Journal Article
Heys, A. (online). The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood. Journal of Criminal Law, https://doi.org/10.1177/00220183231179181

The Council of Europe Convention on Action Against Trafficking in Human Beings stipulates a ‘non-punishment principle’ which provides for the possibility of not imposing penalties on victims for crimes they were compelled to commit. This paper invest... Read More about The UK's statutory defence for victims of modern slavery and its narrow understanding of victimhood.

From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents (2023)
Book
Heys, A. (2023). From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents. Oxford University Press

Description:
From Conflict to Modern Slavery considers the lives of people after they have fled conflict and arrived in the UK. The book draws on insights from interviews with those who have experienced the UK immigration system, and observations ar... Read More about From Conflict to Modern Slavery: The Drivers and the Deterrents.

Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000 (2023)
Thesis
Fleury, S. Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000. (Thesis). University of Hull. https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4311824

This study uses an eco-global criminological approach to understanding how children may migrate in the future as a result of environmental change, including climate change, and the human rights abuses they may face without adequate protections. It an... Read More about Applying the ‘useable past’ to the protection of climate migrants : child displacement from Vietnam and Montserrat, 1975-2000.

Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution (2023)
Book
Burnard, T. (in press). Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution. Charlottesville, Virginia: University of Virginia Press

Based on a close reading of nearly four hundred articles in leading journals published over the past decade, Trevor Burnard provides an unprecedented examination and analysis of the direction of the field encompassed by the popular hashtag #VastEarly... Read More about Writing Early America: From Empire to Revolution.