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

• Module 14: Links between Cybercrime, Trafficking in Persons and Smuggling of Migrants

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

• • Use of technology to facilitate trafficking in persons and smuggling of migrants
  • Technology facilitating trafficking in persons
  • Technology in smuggling of migrants
  • Using technology to prevent and combat TIP and SOM
  • Privacy and data concerns
  • Emerging trends

• 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  

 

Core reading

 

This section provides a list of (mostly) open access materials that the lecturer could ask the students to read before taking a class based on this Module.

• Latonero, Mark, Browyn Wex and Meredith Dank (2015). Technology and Labor Trafficking in a Networked Society: General Overview, Emerging Innovations, and Philippines Case Study . California: University of Southern California, Annenberg Center on Communication Leadership & Policy.
• Kyo Yeon, Park and Yujin Park (2018). Technology as a catalyst, facilitator, and intermediator in human trafficking: Recent case studies.
• Pendergrass, Melissa A. (2018). The Intersection of Human Trafficking and Technology. Diss. Utica College.
• Raets, Sigrid and Jelle Janssens (2018). Trafficking & Technology: The role of digital communication technologies in the human trafficking business.
• Thakor, Mitali and Dannah Boyd (2013). Networked trafficking: Reflections on technology and the anti-trafficking movement. Dialectical Anthropology, vol. 37, pp. 277-290.
• United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (2008). Workshop 017 Technology and Human Trafficking, Background Paper, The Vienna Forum to fight Human Trafficking 13-15 February 2008, Austria Center Vienna, Vienna: UNODC.
• Zijlstra, J. and I. van Liempt (2017). Smart(phone) travelling: understanding the use and impact of mobile technology on irregular migration journeys, Int. J. Migration and Border Studies, vol. 2, pp. 174-191.

 

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