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Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office) (2023)
Report
Jackson, B., Bosatta, L., & Schwarz, K. (2023). Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office). Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (UK)

Submission to the UK Government call for evidence (led by the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office) International Development White Paper, September 2023. Response to questions submitted by the Rights Lab, University of Nottingham. Responses... Read More about Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Response to the UK International Development White Paper: Call for Evidence (Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office).

Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply (2023)
Journal Article
Blackstone, N. T., Rodríguez-Huerta, E., Battaglia, K., Jackson, B., Jackson, E., Benoit Norris, C., & Decker Sparks, J. L. (2023). Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply. Nature Food, 4(7), 596–606. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43016-023-00794-x

Social risk assessments and case studies of labour conditions in food production primarily focus on specific subpopulations, regions and commodities. To date, research has not systematically assessed labour conditions against international standards... Read More about Forced labour risk is pervasive in the US land-based food supply.

The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing? (2023)
Journal Article
Burcu, O., & Wang, W. (2023). The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing?. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, https://doi.org/10.1177/18681026231178560

Why and how has China covered the Black Lives Matter (BLM), a movement with emerging themes closely related to its domestic issues? To what extent does the Chinese media build a unified discourse on sensitive themes that underpin the BLM? These are i... Read More about The View From Beijing on Black Lives Matter: Why do Black Lives Matter for Beijing?.

COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity (2023)
Journal Article
Dotsey, S., Lumley-Sapanski, A., & Ambrosini, M. (2023). COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 20(12), Article 6108. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph20126108

This article explores the impact of COVID-19 restrictions on foreign health workers in Italy. Focusing on caregivers in Lombardia, we explore what we call carer precarity, an emergent form of precarity resulting from pandemic restrictions exacerbatin... Read More about COVID-19 and (Im)migrant Carers in Italy: The Production of Carer Precarity.

Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan (2023)
Journal Article
Lumley-Sapanski, A., Schwarz, K., Cano, A. V., Babiker, M. A., Crowther, M., Death, E., …Mir, M. P. (2023). Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan. Human Rights Review, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12142-023-00683-7

COVID-19 has caused far-reaching humanitarian challenges. Amongst the emerging impacts of the pandemic is on thedynamics of human trafficking. This paper presents findings from a multi-methods study interrogating the impacts of COVID-19 on human traf... Read More about Exacerbating Pre-Existing Vulnerabilities: an Analysis of the Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Human Trafficking in Sudan.

The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study (2023)
Journal Article
Such, E., Gardner, A., Dang, M., Wright, N., Bravo-Balsa, L., Brotherton, V., …Trodd, Z. (in press). The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study. Journal of Human Trafficking, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2023.2194760

The COVID-19 pandemic has considerably affected global economies and societies, exacerbating existing social inequalities. This “syndemic” pandemic has placed people and communities affected by modern slavery and human trafficking at elevated risk of... Read More about The Risks and Harms Associated with Modern Slavery during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United Kingdom: A Multi-Method Study.

Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels (2023)
Working Paper
Seymour, R., Nyarko-Agyei, A., Severn, K., McCabe, H., Kypraios, T., Sirl, D., & Taylor, A. Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels

Forcing someone into marriage against their will is a violation of their human rights. In 2021, the county of Nottinghamshire, UK, launched a strategy to tackle forced marriage and violence against women and girls. However, accessing information abou... Read More about Comparative Judgement Modeling to Map Forced Marriage at Local Levels.

Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience (2023)
Journal Article
Rinaldi-Semione, J., & Brewster, B. (2023). Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience. Societies, 13(3), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3390/soc13030061

Prior research has evidenced the importance of collaboration and multi-agency partnership work in responding to human trafficking in both the UK and US. Three previous key studies are synthesized in this paper. We situate multi-agency anti-traffickin... Read More about Galvanizing Local Anti-Trafficking Partnership Work Using Intelligence: Profiling the Problem and Building Resilience.