Dr Jackie Sheehan (University of Nottingham) will speak on ‘Hidden in Plain Sight: The Recruitment, Transportation and Employment of Chinese Victims of Transnational Trafficking to the UK’
Chinese nationals form the second-largest group of recognized victims of trafficking in the UK, according to statistics compiled by the UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC). However, my research has shown that these figures underestimate the actual extent of trafficking from China into the UK, and also that there is a wider range of Chinese victims ending up in the UK in terms of age, gender, employment destination, and even immigration status, than is often supposed. Drawing on a total of more than 50 cases of trafficking into the UK, my work locates trafficking within the context of arranged migration out of China, showing that rather than there being clearly identifiable individuals who are traffickers and victims, it is more a case of identifying exploitative and controlling relationships between agents and migrants which can be defined as trafficking.
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