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Introduction -- PART ONE: Understanding security and human trafficking in the 21st century -- Chapter One: Human trafficking: Old phenomenon, new meaning(s) -- Chapter Two: Human Trafficking as a Security Threat -- PART TWO: Fear of the Other -- Chapter Three: Closing US refugee resettlement with the stroke of a pen -- Chapter Four: Fortress Europe -- PART THREE: Lived experiences of (in)security -- Chapter Five: Drug mules, foot guides, or victims of child trafficking? -- Chapter Six: Young and male asylum seekers: A security threat to the European Union? -- Conclusions: Way forward.

Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children

Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children.

"This book, based on exploratory ethnographic research, analyses the experiences of African migrants in Thailand. Thailand has always been a regional migration hub with Africans being the most recent. Sitting at the intersection of race and migration studies, this book focuses on the challenges Black asylum seekers and labor migrants face trying to integrate into a society that has had very limited contact with and knowledge about Black Africans. Bringing together research from African, Thai, and European scholars, this volume focuses on forced migrants, such as Somali asylum seekers, and labor migrants, largely African men seeking better livelihoods in niche economies such as gem trading, garment wholesale, and football playing and coaching. The book also includes theoretical contributions to the understanding of precarity and human security, the concept of in/visibility to analyze the challenges African migrants face in Thailand as well as the concept of othering to understand discrimination against Africans. The book also analyzes the Thai migration policy context and the challenges facing Thai policy makers, law enforcement representatives, and the migrants themselves. While not comparative in nature, this volume directly connects with studies of Africans in other parts of Asia, especially China. Addressing an important gap in migration research, this book will be of interest to researchers across the fields of migration and mobility studies, African Studies, and Asian Studies"--

This open access book brings into dialogue emerging and seasoned migration and religion scholars with spiritual leaders and representatives of faith-based organizations assisting refugees. Violent conflicts, social unrest, and other humanitarian crises around the world have led to growing numbers of people seeking refuge both in the North and in the South. Migrating and seeking refuge have always been part and parcel of spiritual development. However, the current 'refugee crisis' in Europe and elsewhere in the world has brought to the fore fervent discussions regarding the role of religion in defining difference, linking the 'refugee crisis' with Islam, and fear of the 'Other.' Many religious institutions, spiritual leaders, and politicians invoke religious values and call for strict border controls to resolve the 'refugee crisis.' However, equally many humanitarian organizations and refugee advocates use religious values to inform their call to action to welcome refugees and migrants, provide them with assistance, and facilitate integration processes. This book includes three distinct but inter-related parts focusing, respectively, on politics, values, and discourses mobilized by religious beliefs; lived experiences of religion, with a particular emphasis on identity and belonging among various refugee groups; and faith and faith actors and their responses to forced migration.

AbstractPrecarity is defined as precarious existence, lacking in predictability, job security, material or psychological welfare. In migration studies, precarity is often associated with low wages, "illegality" and "deportability." Based on field research, this article focuses on Polish nurses working in Norway. As health professionals and citizens of the European Union, they do not possess the stereotypical characteristics of precarious workers. They are neither low skilled or poorly compensated nor unauthorised. Our findings emphasise multiple sources of Polish nurses' precarity in Poland – multiple low‐wage jobs, poor life‐work balance – and in Norway – short‐time assignments, variable working hours, high levels of mobility and challenges in family reunification. Precarity in Norway stemmed from policies that left recruitment of foreign‐born nurses in the hands of private agencies acting without an oversight of the Norwegian Health Directorate. Norway subscribes to the WHO ethical recruitment principles, but it falls short in monitoring private recruitment agencies.