Taking Back Control: Human Rights and Human Trafficking in the United Kingdom

Todd Landman (), Ben Brewster and Sara Thornton
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Todd Landman: Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Ben Brewster: Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK
Sara Thornton: Rights Lab, University of Nottingham, Nottingham NG7 2RD, UK

Societies, 2024, vol. 14, issue 4, 1-18

Abstract: Modern slavery and human trafficking are well recognized as significant problems in need of legislation, policies, and actions from a wide range of stakeholders in the United Kingdom. The passage of the UK Modern Slavery Act 2015 is a hallmark of these concerns and has made the UK a world leader in the fight against modern slavery and human trafficking, a legislative development that is in line with the country’s broader formal commitment to the international and European human rights regime. In the post-Brexit period, however, there has been an increasing de jure conflation of modern slavery and human trafficking with efforts to curb immigration, leading to a significant questioning of the UK’s commitment to human rights. This article locates the consideration of human rights and human trafficking within these broader political trends in order to understand the prospects for meaningful measures to combat modern slavery and human trafficking in the future.

Keywords: modern slavery; human trafficking; human rights; international law; immigration; migration (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: A13 A14 P P0 P1 P2 P3 P4 P5 Z1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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