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Editorial: Labour, Migration, and Exploitation during COVID-19 and Lessons (Not) Learnt 社论：COVID-19 期间的劳工、移民和剥削以及（未）汲取的教训

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Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223211

A. Lepp, Borislav Gerasimov

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‘Inanimate Objects’: Human consequences of Australia’s commodified approach to migrant workers during COVID-19 “无生命的物体”:2019冠状病毒病期间澳大利亚对移民工人的商品化做法对人类的影响

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223212

Laurie Berg, Bassina Farbenblum

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‘Now More Than Ever, Survivors Need Us’: Essential labouring and increased precarity during COVID-19 “幸存者比以往任何时候都更需要我们”:COVID-19期间必不可少的劳动和不稳定性加剧

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223218

Corinne Schwarz, Hannah Britton, Eden Nay, Christie Holland

{"title":"‘Now More Than Ever, Survivors Need Us’: Essential labouring and increased precarity during COVID-19","authors":"Corinne Schwarz, Hannah Britton, Eden Nay, Christie Holland","doi":"10.14197/atr.201223218","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201223218","url":null,"abstract":"During the earliest waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, much media and public discourse focused on the effects of increasing precarity on already vulnerable populations. As in-person work added a layer of viral risk and unemployment drastically exacerbated economic precariousness, the category of ‘essential worker’ gained new prominence in these conversations. In this paper, we focus on the complicated relationship between two groups of workers depicted as marginalised and exploited to different degrees during COVID-19: trafficked persons and anti-trafficking service providers. Though media coverage did not conflate these groups, it applied a capacious understanding of precarious labour and structural inequalities that encapsulated different types of essential work. We draw on media produced by frontline anti-trafficking and sex workers’ rights organisations between March and May 2020. Even with renewed attention to macro-level harms, many publications still emphasised individualism over collectivity. This emphasis on singular organisational representatives—frontline workers—as heroic rescuers mirrored larger, normative anti-trafficking discourses. At the point at which the ‘new normal’ was nowhere in sight, COVID-19 served as a flashpoint to reconsider current intervention strategies and instead emphasise a critique of precarious labour along multiple vectors.","PeriodicalId":43972,"journal":{"name":"Anti-Trafficking Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135199263","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Negotiating Multiple Risks: Health, safety, and well-being among internal migrant sex workers in Brazil during COVID-19 协商多重风险:2019冠状病毒病期间巴西境内移徙性工作者的健康、安全和福祉

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223215

Angelo Martins Jr, Larissa Brito, Thiago Pizzo Scatena

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‘The Pandemic Played a Cruel Joke on Us’: The vulnerabilities of Kyrgyz women migrant workers in Russia during COVID-19 “疫情对我们开了一个残酷的玩笑”:2019冠状病毒病期间在俄罗斯的吉尔吉斯女移民工人的脆弱性

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223213

Lola Abdukadyrova, Olga Studenko

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Are They Victims of COVID-19? The livelihood and quandaries of sex workers in the New Kuchingoro camp for internally displaced people in Abuja, Nigeria 他们是COVID-19的受害者吗?尼日利亚阿布贾境内流离失所者的New Kuchingoro难民营中性工作者的生计和困境

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.201223216

Seun Bamidele

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Access Denied: Sex workers’ exclusion from COVID-19 relief in the United States 拒绝访问:性工作者被排除在美国的COVID-19救济之外

Anti-Trafficking Review Pub Date : 2023-09-29 DOI: 10.14197/atr.2012232110

Mariah Grant