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Genealogies of slavery

Genealogies of slavery
Genealogies of slavery
This chapter addresses the concept of slavery, exploring its character and significance as a dark page in history, but also as a specifically criminological and zemiological problem, in the context of international law and human rights. By tracing the ambiguities of slavery in international law and international development, the harms associated with slavery are considered. Harms include both those statutorily proscribed, and those that are not, but that can still be regarded as socially destructive. Traditionally, antislavery has been considered within the parameters of abolition and criminalization. In this context recently, anti-trafficking has emerged as a key issue in contemporary anti-slavery work. While valuable, anti-trafficking is shown to have significant limitations. It advances criminalization and stigmatization of the most vulnerable and further perpetuates harm. At the same time, it identifies structural conditions like poverty, vulnerability, and “unfreedom” of movement only to put them aside. Linked to exploitation, violence and zemia, the chapter brings to the fore some crucial questions concerning the prospects of systemic theory in the investigation of slavery, that highlight the root causes of slavery, primarily poverty and inequality. Therefore, the chapter counterposes an alternative approach in which the orienting target is not abolition of slavery but advancing structural changes against social harm.
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Palgrave Macmillan
Boukli, Avi
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Boukli, Avi, Yanacopulos, Helen and Papanicolaou, Georgios (2019) Genealogies of slavery. In, Winterdyk, John, Jones, Jackie, Jones, Jackie and John, Winterdyk (eds.) The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. (The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking) Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 1-19. (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_11-1).

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This chapter addresses the concept of slavery, exploring its character and significance as a dark page in history, but also as a specifically criminological and zemiological problem, in the context of international law and human rights. By tracing the ambiguities of slavery in international law and international development, the harms associated with slavery are considered. Harms include both those statutorily proscribed, and those that are not, but that can still be regarded as socially destructive. Traditionally, antislavery has been considered within the parameters of abolition and criminalization. In this context recently, anti-trafficking has emerged as a key issue in contemporary anti-slavery work. While valuable, anti-trafficking is shown to have significant limitations. It advances criminalization and stigmatization of the most vulnerable and further perpetuates harm. At the same time, it identifies structural conditions like poverty, vulnerability, and “unfreedom” of movement only to put them aside. Linked to exploitation, violence and zemia, the chapter brings to the fore some crucial questions concerning the prospects of systemic theory in the investigation of slavery, that highlight the root causes of slavery, primarily poverty and inequality. Therefore, the chapter counterposes an alternative approach in which the orienting target is not abolition of slavery but advancing structural changes against social harm.

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Accepted/In Press date: 11 December 2018
Published date: 25 November 2019
Additional Information: © 2019 The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG

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Local EPrints ID: 472042
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/472042
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ORCID for Avi Boukli: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-4281-1664

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Editor: John Winterdyk
Editor: Jackie Jones
Author: Avi Boukli ORCID iD
Author: Helen Yanacopulos
Author: Georgios Papanicolaou
Editor: Jackie Jones
Editor: Winterdyk John

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