New Forms of Collaborative Lawyering and Story Construction in the Field of International Protection: Cases of Victims of Human Trafficking

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 299-307
Author(s):  
Flora Di Donato
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Voluntary Associations ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Cultural Mediators ◽  
Story Construction

This contribution seeks to explore new forms of legal, human and social protection in which clients, lawyers and voluntary associations work together to identify vulnerable people and their needs and to defend them. It shows how forms of so-called collaborative lawyering can be articulated in practice by analysing cases of international protection in Italy. It puts the accent on the role played by non-lawyers (cultural mediators) in contributing to the victims of human trafficking processes of familiarisation and socialisation, thereby exploring whether and how these diverse collaborators may contribute to empowering the performance of vulnerable clients in the procedures that involve them. The contribution ends with a proposal to make conscious use of legal storytelling as a tool for supporting vulnerable clients, in a socio-clinical space shared between researchers, professionals (attorneys, judges, voluntary associations) and clinical students.

THE PROTECTION OF EUROPEAN UNION CITIZENS VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN EUROPE

2016 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 159-178
Author(s):  
Fulvia Staiano
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Legal Framework ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Refugee Status ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Eu Member States ◽  
European Court ◽  
Common European Asylum System

On February 2015, Eurostat issued a report highlighting that 65% of registered victims of human trafficking in Europe between 2010 and 2012 were citizens of the European Union (EU). Despite the seriousness of this phenomenon, EU citizens who are victims of trafficking are afforded little protection in the European legal space. First, the multi-level legal framework against trafficking applicable on the Union territory does not recognise clear residence rights to this group. Second, the general freedom of movement granted to all EU citizens under Directive 2004/38 might be precluded to victims of trafficking due to the economic prerequisites required by this instrument. It follows that the granting of refugee status to EU citizens who are victims of trafficking becomes a crucial source of protection. The safe country presumption in force between EU Member States under the so-called Aznar Protocol, however, precludes access to international protection for this group. This article critically reviews the Common European Asylum System, in search of normative and judicial interpretations capable of ensuring a stronger protection of EU citizens who are victims of trafficking. In this context, a special focus is devoted to the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights and of the Court of Justice of the European Union.

scholarly journals ANALISIS PENGARUH PERANG, KEMISKINAN DAN DISKRIMINASI TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DAN ANAK DALAM KONTEKS PERDAGANGAN MANUSIA

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusnarida Eka Nizmi
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
Transportation Cost ◽  
Domestic Conflict ◽  
Potential Target ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
The Cost

This study aims to describe the unhappiness of being women and children since human trafficking crimes dissapear their lives that driven by war, poverty and discrimination. There are various casualities that trigger human trafficking and the involvement of trafficker in this humanity crime. This study reviews various literatures since library research is the method of this research. This research analyzes the concept of war, poverty, and domestic conflict. Women and children become vulnerable target to be smuggled illegally to destination countries. Many of them finally end up in torture, violance and sexual exploitation. They have to keep working with minimum salary just for paying transportation cost. For smugglers, these vulnerable people are potential target to get money from selling them to other person or group. The smugglers lied to them about the truly motives and for the victims, the cost and exploitation are the consequences to reveal all their the horrible conditions. This research shows that how women and children start their sad journey since devastated and insecure in the neighbourhood because of war, domestic conflict and never ending poverty

Part II Commercial Aspects of the Marine Environment, 5 The International Labour Organization and Ocean Governance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Politakis George P
Keyword(s):  
United Nations ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
Standard Setting ◽  
International Labour Organization ◽  
Commercial Fishing ◽  
Decent Work ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Strategic Objectives ◽  
Ocean Governance

This chapter examines the role of the International Labour Organization (ILO) in ocean governance. Established in 1919, ILO is the oldest agency of the United Nations. Today, its decent work agenda is articulated around four strategic objectives: promote fundamental principles and rights at work; create employment and income opportunities; enhance social protection and social security; and strengthen social dialogue and tripartism. The chapter discusses ILO’s standard-setting activities with respect to international protection of maritime labour as well as the Maritime Labour Convention of 2006, which gave rise to a new social charter for global seafaring. It also considers ILO’s standard-setting work relating to commercial fishing and to biometric seafarers’ identity documents (SIDs).

Support mounts for a social protection guarantee for the world's most vulnerable people

BMJ ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 342 (jun16 3) ◽  
pp. d3784-d3784
Author(s):  
J. Zarocostas
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Vulnerable People

Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021): Migrant Accommodation and Control

2021 ◽  
pp. 019791832110634
Author(s):  
Liam Coakley ◽  
Piaras MacEinri
Keyword(s):  
Social Protection ◽  
Current System ◽  
White Paper ◽  
Policy Statement ◽  
International Protection ◽  
Ample Evidence ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Settlement Services ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Control

This IMR Dispatch engages with Ireland's White Paper to End Direct Provision (2021) - the Government of Ireland's most recent policy statement on the provision of settlement services for migrants seeking asylum in Ireland. The actions outlined in the White Paper promise to reorder the provision of accommodation and support for such migrants. A range of positive inputs are included, the most significant of which is the proposed discontinuation of Ireland's current system of dispersed ‘camp-like’ communal accommodations for International Protection applicants and its replacement with a new person-centered system of ‘own room’ and ‘own door’ accommodations in the community. A wide range of personal supports are envisaged as well. At first glance, this White Paper shows that the Government of Ireland has engaged with the concerns of organizations active in Ireland's social protection sector in general, and with the needs of applicants for international protection in particular, to provide a more humane system of International Protection. However, tensions are discernible, and we contend that there is ample evidence of the Government of Ireland's impulse to retain command and control of its migration management processes in the White Paper, even against the background of its new, more human-rights-based approach. We suggest that the spatialities inherent in the proposal point to a potential rearticulation of state control rather than to any diminution of same.

scholarly journals Women Victim of Trafficking Seeking Asylum in Italy An Ethnographic Perspective on the Regularisation Processes

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devisri Nambiar ◽  
Serena Scarabello
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Asylum Seeker ◽  
Asylum Seekers ◽  
Local Context ◽  
Migrant Women ◽  
International Protection ◽  
North East ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
Reception Centre

This study, drawing on ethnographic observations of the regularization processes of two migrant women victim of human trafficking and who claimed for international protection in Italy, aims at contributing on the debate on the intersection between the asylum system and the anti-trafficking projects, focusing on how it concretely works in a specific local context and highlighting open challenges and critical issues. The first woman is hosted in a reception centre for asylum seekers, the second one in a shelter of the anti-trafficking project in North-East Italy. During their migratory trajectories, both women were recruited and transported in order to be sexually exploited and both (self-)identified, at different stages of their regularization process, as victims of trafficking. In our analysis, we will focus both on the positioning of the asylum seeker women and on the perspective of the operators, trying to understand in which situations these perspectives converged or diverged, in term of choices, power hierarchies and strategies of resistances.

scholarly journals Organizing the Exploitation of Vulnerable People: A Qualitative Assessment of Human Trafficking

2021 ◽  
pp. 014920632110469
Author(s):  
Dean A. Shepherd ◽  
Vinit Parida ◽  
Trent Williams ◽  
Joakim Wincent
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Sex Industry ◽  
Vulnerable People ◽  
Nongovernment Organizations

Focusing on the organizing practices by which vulnerable individuals are exploited for their labor, we build a model that depicts how human traffickers systematically target impoverished girls and women and transform their autonomous objection into unquestioned compliance. Drawing from qualitative interviews with women forced into labor in the sex industry, human traffickers, brothel managers, and other sources (e.g., doctors, nongovernment organizations, and police officers fighting human trafficking), we inductively theorize that organizing of vulnerable individuals for human exploitation involves four interrelated practices—(1) deceptive recruiting of the vulnerable, (2) entrapping through isolation, (3) extinguishing alternatives by building barriers, and (4) converting the exploited into exploiters—that together erode and eventually eliminate workers’ autonomy. We conclude by discussing implications of our research for theory—specifically, the literature on human exploitation and loss of worker agency.

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