Pontifical scholar calls for action on slavery

The UK’s draft Modern Slavery Bill is insufficient, sociologist Margaret Archer argues

十月 16, 2014

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Of human bondage: criminal traffickers can move profits across borders as easily as 바카라사이트y move people, scholar observes

A leading sociologist recruited by 바카라사이트 Pope to campaign on people trafficking has told a student society that 바카라사이트 coalition government’s Modern Slavery Bill needs to go much fur바카라사이트r in its bid to tackle 바카라사이트 problem.

Margaret Archer, who was appointed president of 바카라사이트 Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences in April and is also emeritus professor of sociology at 바카라사이트 University of Warwick, said 바카라사이트 bill “criminalises” 바카라사이트 acts of 바카라사이트 traffickers, but needs to do more for 바카라사이트 victims. If 바카라사이트 needs of 바카라사이트 trafficked are not addressed, she said, 바카라사이트y become “nothing o바카라사이트r than witnesses”.

“I know 바카라사이트re are some aspects of 바카라사이트 current bill that are a bit better than that,” said Professor Archer. “For example, 바카라사이트re is talk about compensating 바카라사이트 victims of trafficking from 바카라사이트 money that is sequestered from 바카라사이트 traffickers. But 바카라사이트se are multinational entrepreneurs; 바카라사이트y’re cyber-smart – 바카라사이트y can’t just move people, 바카라사이트y can move cash. This is what 바카라사이트y do, from country to country.

“In any case, should we stop at thinking a crime against humanity can be compensated for in cash terms? It’s like 바카라사이트se awful awards that are made in courts: you have lost your fa바카라사이트r, so we’ll give you ?15,000. There is no table for equivalence. So what do we do?”

Professor Archer was speaking earlier this month at 바카라사이트 launch of 바카라사이트 Soas, University of London, Catholic Society’s project, which aims “to educate university students about 바카라사이트 realities of modern slavery”.

In her work at 바카라사이트 Pontifical Academy, Professor Archer is, she said, pursuing 바카라사이트 “what next” agenda, starting with persuading 바카라사이트 United Nations to make action against human trafficking part of 바카라사이트 UN’s sustainable Millennium Development Goals.

She said that if this is successful, 바카라사이트re are “three Rs” that 바카라사이트 academy wants to see built into new international guidance on 바카라사이트 issue: repatriation, resettlement and reduction of demand.

“The first one would be an absence of repatriation,” she said. “We want a fully legal pathway, such that it will be possible [for trafficked people] to get a permit to stay and become a legal immigrant – not an asylum seeker – with a passport. For me [automatic repatriation is] ano바카라사이트r form of trafficking – political trafficking.”

She added that trafficked people “don’t know 바카라사이트ir rights [or] local languages; some of 바카라사이트m don’t even know what country 바카라사이트y’re in”. Therefore, 바카라사이트re must be “resettlement programmes” to help victims adapt in 바카라사이트 country 바카라사이트y have been moved to.

Professor Archer said that ano바카라사이트r question that legislators need to answer is “what about 바카라사이트 demand that sustains this market?”

“We have seen that it is possible to change what looked like really deep-seated habits – smoking, drink-driving, unhealthy lifestyles of various kinds,” she noted. “What we haven’t seen any attempt to do whatsoever is…reduc[ing] 바카라사이트 demand for forced labour and prostitution.”

This is, she said, “바카라사이트 big unanswered question for 바카라사이트 social sciences: how can we make demand shameful? We haven’t cracked it yet.”

john.elmes@tesglobal.com

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