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Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain

Book
Sharapov, K. (2016)
Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain. In P. Rigby, & M. Malloch (Eds.), Human Trafficking: The Complexities of Exploitation, 17-40. Edinburgh University Press. doi:10.3366/edinburgh/9781474401128.003.0002
Focusing on three national case studies this chapter explores the comparative empirical data on public knowledge and understanding of human trafficking, examining the link bet...

The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of Organisations of People with Disabilities (Working Paper)

Working Paper
Sharapov, K., Nazarenko, V., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Anderson, D. (2022)
The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Perspectives of Organisations of People with Disabilities (Working Paper
This working paper sets out key findings and recommendations based on the survey of organisations of people with disabilities in Ukraine. The survey was conducted in May - Jul...

‘Stick them to the cross’: Anti-trafficking apps and the production of ignorance

Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2022)
‘Stick them to the cross’: Anti-trafficking apps and the production of ignorance. Journal of Human Trafficking, 8(3), 233-249. https://doi.org/10.1080/23322705.2020.1801284
There is a long history of ignorance production around trafficking in human beings. A proliferation of anti-trafficking apps plays an important role in the reinforcement of th...

Re-politicising Anti-trafficking: Migration, Labour, and the War in Ukraine

Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (in press)
Re-politicising Anti-trafficking: Migration, Labour, and the War in Ukraine. Anti-trafficking review, 22,
Drawing on multi-method research, this article demonstrates that the risks of large-scale trafficking due to the war in Ukraine were mitigated by granting Ukrainians more exte...

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation

Journal Article
Guma, T., Blake, Y., Maclean, G., MacLeod, K., Makutsa, R., & Sharapov, K. (2024)
“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 47(4), 742-762. https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2023.2238052
This paper critically examines the placement of people seeking asylum in temporary accommodation during the Covid-19 pandemic. It is based on a 14-month collaborative ethnogra...

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
No abstract available.

Disability, displacement and COVID-19 in Ukraine: A scoping literature review of emerging challenges and vulnerabilities

Report
Anderson, D., & Sharapov, K. (2022)
Disability, displacement and COVID-19 in Ukraine: A scoping literature review of emerging challenges and vulnerabilities. Edinburgh: AHRC
This paper presents a synthesis of the available literature on the topics of disability, displacement and COVID-19 in Ukraine. The discussion contained here represents a scopi...

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine (perspectives of organisations of people with disabilities)

Report
Sharapov, K., Anderson, D., Burova, O., Polishchuk, O., & Nazarenko, V. (2022)
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine (perspectives of organisations of people with disabilities). Edinburgh: Arts and Humanities Research Council
The research presented in this report is based on a survey of non-governmental organisations of people with disabilities in Ukraine (organisations of persons with disabilities...

Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking

Presentation / Conference
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2021, August)
Failure across borders: the spread of bad anti-trafficking. Paper presented at RGS-IBG Annual International Conference 2021, London
Ineffective and harmful anti-trafficking is being internationalised in some striking ways, partly in response to representations of trafficking networks as borderless and omni...

The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Household Perspectives, Public Health Implications, and Considerations for Emergency and Post-Conflict Recovery

Report
Sharapov, K., Nazarenko, V., Polishchuk, O., & Burova, O. (2023)
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on People with Disabilities in Ukraine: Household Perspectives, Public Health Implications, and Considerations for Emergency and Post-Conflict Recovery. Edinburgh: Arts and Humanities Research Council
This report presents the outcomes of the project's final phase, which evaluated the impact of COVID-19 on people with disabilities in Ukraine. This phase relies on accounts fr...