On digital passages and borders: Refugees and the new infrastructure for movement and control

M Latonero, P Kift - Social Media+ Society, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Since 2014, millions of refugees and migrants have arrived at the borders of Europe. This
article argues that, in making their way to safe spaces, refugees rely not only on a physical …

Utilising the communication for development approach to prevent online child trafficking in Thailand

N Kranrattanasuit - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 2024 - nature.com
In Thailand, predators use online and offline methods to exploit migrant children as forced
labourers in various industries, including shrimp and seafood processing, construction and …

Computer security and privacy in the interactions between victim service providers and human trafficking survivors

C Chen, N Dell, F Roesner - 28th USENIX Security Symposium (USENIX …, 2019 - usenix.org
A victim service provider, or VSP, is a crucial partner in a human trafficking survivor's
recovery. VSPs provide or connect survivors to services such as medical care, legal …

Identifying online risk markers of hard-to-observe crimes through semi-inductive triangulation: The case of human trafficking in the United States

I de Vries, J Radford - The British Journal of Criminology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Many types of crime are difficult to study because they are hard to operationalize, hidden
from the public, or both. With communication increasingly moving to online domains, recent …

Trafficking and technology: Exploring the role of digital communication technologies in the Belgian human trafficking business

S Raets, J Janssens - European Journal on Criminal Policy and Research, 2021 - Springer
Over the past few years, the agenda-topping issue of human trafficking is increasingly
bracketed with the use of digital technologies. Though the trafficking-technology nexus is a …

A qualitative assessment of hotel employee engagement in anti-human-trafficking initiatives

TC Zhang, G Ronzoni, M Medeiros… - International Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
The hospitality industry is particularly vulnerable to human trafficking crimes. Unfortunately,
prior research has not sufficiently tackled this important issue. This study investigates hotel …

Human trafficking and the darknet: Technology, innovation, and evolving criminal justice strategies

J Reid, B Fox - Science informed policing, 2020 - Springer
In an era of unprecedented technological accessibility coupled with the possibility of online
anonymity, human traffickers often operate in the shadows–avoiding interference by typical …

A computational framework for social-media-based business analytics and knowledge creation: empirical studies of CyTraSS

W Chung, E Mustaine, D Zeng - Enterprise Information Systems, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Social media (SM) platforms greatly facilitate business information sharing, customer
relationship building, and client emotion expression. However, managing knowledge …

Criminal intelligence surveillance and monitoring on social media: Cases of cyber-trafficking

W Chung, E Mustaine, D Zeng - 2017 IEEE international …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cyber-trafficking is the illegal transport of humans, drugs, weapons, or goods by means of
Internet-enabled electronic devices. Currently, there is a lack of surveillance and …

Governing through indicators: Structural biases and empirical challenges in indicator-based approaches to anti-trafficking policy, practice, and research

I de Vries, E Cockbain - … Slavery in Global …, 2024 - bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
In this reflective chapter, we examine the structural biases and empirical challenges
underlying human trafficking 'indicators'(especially problem, risk, and performance …