Modern-day Slavery at Sea: Human Trafficking in the Thai Fishing Industry

• Author: Zezen Z. Mutaqin
• Pages: 75-76

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Zezen Z. Mutaqin

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Most of the literature on modern-day slavery focuses on women and children as

victims of the sex industry. This disproportionate emphasis on sexual exploitation has

resulted in conflation of the term trafficking with prostitution, which has led to an



     

       

       

also in workplaces like fishing vessels and seafood processing factories. This paper

will argue that the proximity of modern slavery to sexual exploitation and the lack of

     

contemporary slavery practices in other sectors.

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Modern-day Slavery at Sea:

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∗ The research and publication of this article is sponsored by Indonesia Endowment Fund for Education (LPDP Indonesia).

The author would like also to thank Professor Khaled Abou El Fadl for his insightful comments.

∗∗ SJD candidate at UCLA Law School; Lecturer at Sharia and Law School Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University

(UIN), Jakarta. LL.B. (UIN Jakarta), LL.M. (Melbourne). ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5895-0813. The author

may be contacted at: zezen.zaenal@uinjkt.ac.id / Address: Fakultas Syariah dan Hukum, UIN, Jl. H. Djuanda No. 59

Ciputat, Jakarta, Indonesia.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.14330/jeail.2018.11.1.04