Disrupting Anti-Trafficking Norms: Survivors, Practitioners and the Future of Global Interventions

by Sarah Elliott (Editor), Megan Denise Smith (Editor)

Overview

This timely and critical volume calls for a fundamental rethinking of how human trafficking is understood and addressed. Bringing together voices of survivors, activists, practitioners and researchers, this collection interrogates why countless interventions by governments, NGOs and international bodies continue to fail.

Merging lived experience with critical scholarship, it offers fresh perspectives on the deep-rooted structural issues that fuel human trafficking such as poverty, racism, patriarchy and neoliberalism. The collection poses transformative ideas to reshape global anti-trafficking responses toward real, lasting justice and change.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781447377733
Publisher:	Policy Press
Publication date:	06/01/2026
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256

About the Author

Sarah Elliott is an international human rights lawyer and senior protection specialist with over a decade of experience working for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

Megan Denise Smith is an independent consultant and expert in gender-based violence currently working with the International Organization for Migration (IOM).

Table of Contents

Part 1: Everything You Should Know (Or Un-Know) About Anti-Trafficking

1. Where Do We Go from Here? Reflecting on 25 Years of the Palermo Protocol – Shandra Woworuntu

2. Everything Everywhere All At Once: A Status Check of Contemporary Human Exploitation – Tuesday Reitano

3. Glass Half Full? What it Would Mean for Anti-Trafficking if Trafficking in Persons is Actually in Decline – Dr Claire Healy

4. The Evolution – and Dilution – of the International Law on Trafficking in Persons – Marika McAdam

5. TBC – Petra Molnar

Part 2: Anti-Trafficking at the Crossroads: The Future of Human Trafficking Interventions

6. From Numbers to Individuals: Preventing Trafficking in Partnership with Workers – Caroline Robinson, Iryna Pakhil, Margarita Permonaite and Valeria Ragni

7. Embracing Complexity: Calling for a New Framework in Counter-Trafficking Policy and Practice – Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith

8. De-colonial Subversion in Refugee Trafficking: Thinking about (Im)mobilities and State Violence from the Vantage Point of Refugees – Hyab Yohannes and Tesfalem Yemane

9. TBC – Thao Do Ngoc

10. Marshalling a Credible Response to Slavery – Dr Aidan McQuade

Conclusion – Sarah Elliott and Megan Denise Smith