Artigo Revisado por pares

The New Abolitionism, International Law, and the Memory of Slavery

2016; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 35; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0738248016000651

ISSN

1939-9022

Autores

Ariela J. Gross, Chantal Thomas,

Tópico(s)

Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender

Resumo

Today, millions of migrant workers, some of them caught in debt bondage, some victims of fraud or forced migration, and others simply desperate for a better life elsewhere but instead finding themselves working for below subsistence wages or no pay at all, could be called modern-day slaves. Campaigns to end modern-day slavery have taken many forms. Most visibly, what is sometimes called “the new abolitionism,” constitutes a strand of modern antislavery and antitrafficking movements that draws often on the analogy between these workers’ plight and chattel slavery in the Atlantic world.

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