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This timely and critical volume calls for a fundamental rethinking of how human trafficking is understood and addressed. Bringing together voices of survivors, activists, practitioners and researchers, this collection interrogates why countless interventions by governments, NGOs and international bodies continue to fail.
Merging lived experience with critical scholarship, it offers fresh perspectives on the deep-rooted structural issues that fuel human trafficking such as poverty, racism, patriarchy and neoliberalism. The collection poses transformative ideas to reshape global anti-trafficking responses toward real, lasting justice and change.
'With contributions from academics, practitioners and people with lived experience, this book provides a timely and critical evaluation of the current state of anti-trafficking work.' Borislav Gerasimov, Anti-Trafficking Review
'A timely and deeply necessary contribution to the anti-trafficking field. Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms challenges long-standing assumptions and calls for more ethical, survivor-centred responses grounded in accountability and structural change. The volume powerfully highlights the importance of meaningful survivor engagement, not as tokenistic participation, but as intellectual and policy leadership. Essential reading for anyone committed to effective and rights-based anti-trafficking responses”.' Tatiana Kotlyarenko, Independent Human Rights and Anti-trafficking Expert
Sarah Elliott is an international human rights lawyer and senior protection specialist with over a decade of experience working for the United Nations Refugee Agency.
Megan Denise Smith is an independent consultant and expert in gender-based violence currently working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).
Introduction: For Whose Benefit? Critical Perspectives on Addressing Human Trafficking - Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith
Part I: Everything You Should Know (Or Un-Know) About Anti-Trafficking
1. The Life of 'Candy': Surviving Human Trafficking and Anti-Trafficking – Shandra Woworuntu
2. Everything Everywhere All at Once: A Status Check of Contemporary Human Exploitation – Tuesday Reitano and Giulia D'Amico
3. A Step in the Right Direction: Could Trafficking in Persons Be in Decline? – Claire Healy
4. The Estrangement of the Trafficking in Persons Protocol from its Parent Treaty against Transnational Organised Crime – Marika McAdam
5. Deadly Digital Borders: Surveillance and Artificial Intelligence as a Driver of Human Trafficking – Petra Molnar
Part II: Anti-Trafficking at the Crossroads: The Future of Human Trafficking Interventions
6. From the Ashes of the Desert: A Survivor’s Call for Reckoning and Reimagination – David Joseph
7. Embracing Complexity in Counter-Trafficking Policy and Practice – Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith
8. State as Refugee Trafficker? Reflections from the Margins – Hyab Teklehaimanot Yohannes and Tesfalem Habte Yemane
9. From Risk Scores to Rights: Governing Artificial Intelligence in Anti-Trafficking through a Human Rights–Based Approach – Do Ngoc Thao
10. Justice Against Power: Marshalling a Credible Response for Slavery Eradication – Aidan McQuade