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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"forced labor"”.
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Modern Slavery: A Thorough Examination on Human Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Children in Mexico
… This study examines human trafficking and forced labor in Mexico with a focus on indigenous women and children. It uses a mixed methodology composed of both qualitative and quantitative data. Qualitative data is used to analyze historical materials related to Spanish colonialism in Mexico, …
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Improving Labor Market Design to Reduce Labor Abuse in the Global Supply Chain in Southeast Asia
Forced labor and labor abuse have become a growing concern in the global supply chain. Evidence suggest that more than 25 million people are victims of forced labor, and that much of this problem stem from the recruitment process. In collaboration with the Issara Institute (Issara), a non-profit …
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CA Transparency in Supply Chains Act: Can It Stop Worker Abuses Among Suppliers in the Developing World?
… 657) is an effective mechanism for addressing forced labor in global supply chains. SB 657 applies to 3200 companies doing business in the state of California. The law demands that companies within its scope provide public disclosures on what they have done to eliminate slavery and human …
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Lightless Mornings: A Fine Legacy
… -great grandfather, W.D. McCurdy’s use of forced labor in his coalmines and cotton plantations in the Black Belt region of Alabama during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Through personal research including interviews with other descendents of McCurdy, as well as scholarly research …
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The Push Factors that Impact Sex Trafficking in the Former Soviet Union
… the push factors of sex trafficking in women as forced labor with particular emphasis on the role of weak legal systems and state institutions, corruption, social and economic factors, and environmental problems that are linked to organized crime (the Russian mafia) from 2001 to 2019. The thesis …
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AWARE: Analyzing the Impact of an Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy Curriculum using Sixth Grade Students in Colorado
… the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, and domestic servitude occurs in every state of the United States. Education is key in preventing human trafficking and American students lack proper knowledge of the issue. This study seeks to bridge this shortcoming through the …
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Providing for the needs of victims of human trafficking under the TVPA of 2000 : the experiences of service providers in Missouri and Kansas
… slavery, commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, and is a modern-day form of slavery. The U.S. is a major destination country for the victims of HT. Few studies exist related to services to victims of HT at the national level or in Missouri and Kansas. The study was conducted to …
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100-Day Exhibition: Labor, Robots, and Corridors
… spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed system of deconstruction and reconstruction: a constant displacement of architectural productions. The whole island is a museum. The …
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Migritude: Migrant Structures of Feeling in a Minor Literature of Globalization
… and expansion of capitalism relies on forced displacement and forced labor authorized and ensured by the nation-state apparatus. I contribute to the field of migritude, which traditionally defines migritude as African and francophone, by expanding its parameters to include literature …
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A QUANTITATIVE STUDY: ON SOCIAL WORKERS' AWARENESS IN IDENTIFYING HUMAN TRAFFICKED VICTIMS
… with 80% of the participants identifying forced labor or forced prostitution as a major part of human trafficking. Just over half of participants (53.3%) indicated that young children were not the most trafficked persons in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. The study also found that …
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Circuits Of Containment: Iron Collars, Incarceration And The Infrastructure Of Slavery
… with chains, jails, the state penitentiary, and forced labor on municipal and state public works shows how technologies shaped enslaved peoples lives as they were captured, contained, and forced to be productive units of labor. By combining insights from scholarship in the fields of US slavery …
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HEARING/s: Will in the Carceral Archive
… the state — as it appears within the text across forced labor economies, eugenic prison science that dictates starvation, classification, and isolation as the rule, the dehumanization of banal bureaucratic processes, the visceral and spectacular violence of prison torture, the marking of the …
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Certification for biofuel: a means to sustainable development?
… demands fueled human rights abuse such as forced labor or economic exploitation. For continued expansion of global biofuels industry, it is critical to address these environmental and social concerns in a timely manner. Biofuel certification is designed as a means to guarantee that fuel …
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Race, gender, and recogimiento: Discursive negotiations of space, sexuality, and productivity in late colonial Mexico
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Democracia y seguridad: el impacto del tipo de régimen sobre el nivel de seguridad física
Los Estudios de Seguridad tradicionales se focalizaron en la seguridad y la supervivencia de la unidad política frente a otros Estados. Sin embargo, en el último tiempo comenzó a estudiarse de forma sistemática la seguridad pública o seguridad ciudadana, centradas en los niveles de violencia, …
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The administration and operation of German prisoner of war camps in the United States during World War II
… urged that prisoners of war relieve the labor shortage through their employment in agricultural and forest work. Although the War Department feared that escaped prisoners would present a security problem, such fears proved groundless.A far more serious problem resulted from efforts of …