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Politics without principle: potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online (2024)
Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (online). Politics without principle: potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online. Environment & Planning C: Politics & Space, https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544241288682

Anti-trafficking has been spreading in a novel way, with moral certitude (where human trafficking is deemed uniquely wrong, and this wrongness is taken as a founding principle for anti-trafficking action) accompanied by little or no accountability. T... Read More about Politics without principle: potential borders and the ethics of anti-trafficking online.

Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK Government Anti-trafficking Funding from 2011 to 2023 (2024)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K., Mendel, J., & Schwartz, K. (2024). Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK Government Anti-trafficking Funding from 2011 to 2023. Anti-trafficking review, 23, 34-57. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201224233

Anti-trafficking policy discourses and funding trajectories in the UK are developing and expanding in a fractured way. This paper demonstrates that current policies and funding allocations primarily focus on supporting specific ‘victims’ and targetin... Read More about Expansion, Fracturing, and Depoliticisation: UK Government Anti-trafficking Funding from 2011 to 2023.

Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again (2024)
Journal Article
Sharapov, K., Hoff, S., Mendel, J., & Gerasimov, B. (2024). Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again. Anti-trafficking review, 1-9. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201224231

This Editorial introduces a special issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review that investigates where the funding for anti-trafficking work comes from, goes to, and with what effect. It reflects on some of the changes in funding that have occurred over th... Read More about Editorial: Rethinking Anti-Trafficking Funding: Following the money, again.

Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Sharapov, K., & Mendel, J. (2024, May). Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine. Presented at 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), Vienna, Austria

Presentation at the side event on Human trafficking and exploitation in the context of armed conflicts: perspectives from Africa, Europe, and Latin America at the 33rd session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ), United... Read More about Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking: Migration, labour, and the war in Ukraine.

Re-politicising Anti-trafficking: Migration, Labour, and the War in Ukraine (2024)
Journal Article
Mendel, J., & Sharapov, K. (2024). Re-politicising Anti-trafficking: Migration, Labour, and the War in Ukraine. Anti-trafficking review, 22, 52-73. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201224224

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 extensive rights than typically afforded to refugees. This shows the advantages... Read More about Re-politicising Anti-trafficking: Migration, Labour, and the War in Ukraine.

Patterns of exploitation: Trends and modus operandi in human trafficking in Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine (2023)
Report
Pekkarinen, A.-G., & Jokinen, A. (2023). Patterns of exploitation: Trends and modus operandi in human trafficking in Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine. Helsinki: European Union’s Internal Security Fund – Police

This report is based on data on the modus operandi and routes of traffickers and other actors involved in trafficking, and on trends in trafficking. The data have been collected in the three partner countries, Estonia, Finland and Latvia, as well as... Read More about Patterns of exploitation: Trends and modus operandi in human trafficking in Finland, Latvia, Estonia, Poland and Ukraine.

“Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation (2023)
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 ethnography conducted between 2020 and 2022 with asylum seeking individuals in Glas... Read More about “Are we criminals?” – everyday racialisation in temporary asylum accommodation.

Вплив пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: Погляди домогосподарств, та висновки для розгляду під час планування і вжиття заходів у надзвичайних ситуаціях в охороні здоров’я та інших сферах життєдіяльності, зокрема подолання конфліктів та їх наслідків. (2023)
Report
Sharapov, K., Nazarenko, V., Polishchuk, O., & Burova, O. (2023). Вплив пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: Погляди домогосподарств, та висновки для розгляду під час планування і вжиття заходів у надзвичайних ситуаціях в охороні здоров’я та інших сферах життєдіяльності, зокрема подолання конфліктів та їх наслідків. Arts and Humanities Research Council

Цей звіт представляє результати заключного етапу проекту, який оцінює вплив COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні. Цей етап базується на свідченнях з 20 домогосподарств з особами з інвалідністю, щоб зрозуміти, як пандемія та відповідь уряду впли... Read More about Вплив пандемії COVID-19 на людей з інвалідністю в Україні: Погляди домогосподарств, та висновки для розгляду під час планування і вжиття заходів у надзвичайних ситуаціях в охороні здоров’я та інших сферах життєдіяльності, зокрема подолання конфліктів та їх наслідків..