The Journal of Human Trafficking announces a call for papers for a forthcoming special issue entitled Traffickers and Slaveholders: Human Rights Violators in Comparative Perspective. The special issue, Guest Edited by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, welcomes original theoretical and empirical contributions on slaveholders and traffickers that address but are not limited to the following topics:
- Frameworks for conceptualizing traffickers and slaveholders
- Restructuring financial and cultural incentives for perpetrators
- Corporate and individual perpetrators
- Contemporary emancipation and abolition approaches to perpetrators
- Contemporary policy assumptions about perpetrators
- The role of gender in the enslavement process
- Perpetrators’ response to emancipation efforts
- Structural and cultural factors related to perpetrator behavior
- Media treatment of perpetrators
- Masculinity and patriarchy
- Corporate responsibility
Click here to read the full call for paper.