• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 12: Children as Smuggled Migrants and Victims of Trafficking

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Children on the move, smuggling and trafficking
  • Protecting smuggled and trafficked children: The international legal framework
  • Protection in practice
  • Children alleged as having committed smuggling or trafficking offences

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in May 2019 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

• Bhabha, Jacqueline (2014). Child Migration and Human Rights in a Global Age. Princeton University Press
• Crock, Mary and Benson, Lenni (eds) (2018). Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice. Elgar
• Gallagher, Anne (2015). Exploitation in Migration: Unacceptable but Inevitable, Journal of International Affairs, vol. 68, pp. 56-74
• King, Shani M (2013). Alone and Unrepresented: A Call to Congress to Provide Counsel for Unaccompanied Minors, Harvard Journal on Legislation, vol. 50, pp.331-513
• Koser, Khalid (2010). Dimensions and Dynamics of Irregular Migration, Population, Space, and Place, vol. 16, pp.181-193
• Lelliott, Joseph (2017). Smuggled and Trafficked Unaccompanied Minors: Towards a Coherent, Protection-Based Approach in International Law, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 29, pp. 238-269
• McAdam, Marika (2015). What's in a Name? Victim Naming and Blaming in Rights-Based Distinctions between Human Trafficking and Migrant Smuggling, International Human Rights Law, vol. 4, pp.1-32
• Noll, Gregor (2016). Junk Science? Four Arguments against the Radiological Age Assessment of Unaccompanied Minors Seeking Asylum, International Journal of Refugee Law, vol. 28, pp.234-250
• Pobjoy, Jason (2017). The Child in International Refugee Law. Oxford University Press
• Sanchez, Gabriella (2017). Critical Perspectives on Clandestine Migration Facilitation: An Overview of Migrant Smuggling Research, Journal on Migration and Human Security, vol. 5, pp.9-27
• Van Doore, Kathryn E (2018). Child migration and trafficking in South-East Asia. In Crock, Mary and Benson, Lenni (eds). Protecting Migrant Children: In Search of Best Practice. Elgar
• Zermatten, Jean (2010). The Best Interests of the Child Principle: Literal Analysis and Function, International Journal of Children's Rights, vol. 18, pp. 483-499
• Zhang, Sheldon, Gabriella Sanchez and Luigi Achilli (2018). Crimes of Solidarity in Mobility: Alternative Views on Migrant Smuggling, The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, vol. 676, pp.6-15

 

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