The Palgrave Handbook of Modern Slavery

“The chapters in this Handbook make compelling reading. Collectively, they offer a deep dive into the complex nexus of forced migration and slavery, pointing to extreme vulnerability, violence, and exploitation in a changing world. This Handbook is highly readable and represents a significant advance in our understanding of complex mechanisms associated with modern slavery. Krambia-Kapardis and her co-editors illuminate pressing challenges for policy-makers. This is a Handbook of real importance.” Loraine Gelsthorpe, Institute of Criminology, University of Cambridge, UK “This book examines the multi-faceted nature of human exploitation from a range of disciplines and critical perspectives. It unpicks the nuance of how modern slavery functions simultaneously as a social ill and potential corporate chameleon while remaining one of the greatest wicked problems of our time. A comprehensive must for any practitioner, advocate or scholar engaged in understanding and combatting modern slavery.” Kathryn van Doore, Griffith Law School, Australia This handbook takes a comprehensive approach to studying and understanding modern slavery, particularly forced labour and human trafficking. It considers the historical and cultural roots of modern slavery and suggests that analyzing the issue from humanities, social sciences, criminological, and business perspectives could lead to a better understanding of its emergence worldwide. The handbook also highlights the role of religions/spiritualities and multinational corporations in the expansion of modern slavery and argues that exploring their potential ethical responsibilities is essential. Furthermore, it combines theoretical frameworks of intersectionality and globalization to study the interconnectedness of various factors in shaping and understanding modern slavery. Finally, it contains an impressive range of geographic and conceptual approaches to the problems of combating modern slavery. Maria Krambia Kapardis is Professor in Department of Management, Entrepreneurship and Digital Business, Cyprus University of Technology, Cyprus. Colin Clark is Professor of Accounting in the Victoria University Business School, Australia. Ajwang’ Warria is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Social Work at the University of Calgary, Canada. Michel Dion is Adjunct Professor in the École de gestion at the Université de Sherbrooke, Canada