Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy
Book Chapter
Sharapov, K. (2018)
Trafficking in Human Beings and the Informal Economy. In R. Piotrowicz, C. Rijken, & B. Heide Uhl (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Human Trafficking. London, UK: Routledge
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The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow
Journal Article
Guma, T. (2018)
The making of a ‘risk population’: categorisations of Roma and ethnic boundary-making among Czech- and Slovak-speaking migrants in Glasgow. Identities, 26(6), 668-687. https://doi.org/10.1080/1070289x.2018.1441690
This paper critically examines the processes of categorisation of Roma migrants in Glasgow, contributing to debates on the (unsuccessful) attempts of the EU and individual Eur...
Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland
Journal Article
Botterill, K., Hopkins, P., & Sanghera, G. S. (2017)
Young people’s everyday securities: pre-emptive and pro-active strategies toward ontological security in Scotland. Social and Cultural Geography, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649365.2017.1346197
This paper uses a framework of ‘ontological security’ to discuss the psycho-social strategies of self-securitization employed by ethnic and religious minority young people in ...
Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance
Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2016)
Human Trafficking and Online Networks: Policy, Analysis, and Ignorance. Antipode, 48(3), 665-684. https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12213
Dominant anti-trafficking policy discourses represent trafficking as an issue of crime, “illegal” migration, victimhood and humanitarianism. Such a narrow focus is not an adeq...
‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom
Journal Article
Sharapov, K. (2017)
‘Traffickers and Their Victims’: Anti-Trafficking Policy in the United Kingdom. Critical Sociology, 43(1), 91-111. https://doi.org/10.1177/0896920515598562
This paper relies upon the ‘what’s the problem represented to be?’ approach to policy analysis to interrogate key representations of human trafficking implicit in the UK gover...
Lifestyle Migration in East Asia: Integrating Ethnographic Methodology and Practice Theory
Book
O'Reilly, K., Stones, R., & Botterill, K. (2014)
Lifestyle Migration in East Asia: Integrating Ethnographic Methodology and Practice Theory. SAGE Publications. https://doi.org/10.4135/978144627305013509192
This project was designed to study the lifestyle migration of British migrants in Thailand and Malaysia and Hong Kong Chinese migrants to mainland China. With a focus on the m...
Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom
Journal Article
Sharapov, K. (2014)
Giving us the ‘Biggest Bang for the Buck’ (or Not): Anti-trafficking government funding in Ukraine and the United Kingdom. Anti-trafficking review, 3, 16-40. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.20121432
The focus of this paper is on government anti-trafficking policies and funding allocations in two case-study countries, Ukraine and the United Kingdom (UK). The paper discusse...