29 October 2015 Thursday (5-6:30pm)
Lecture Theatre
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Human trafficking between China and the UK:
case studies from the asylum system
Professor Jackie Sheehan, University College Cork
Although China has devoted significant attention and resources to the issue of human trafficking in two successive National Action Plans to Combat Trafficking (NAPCT), Chinese nationals trafficked abroad remain a neglected group who in practice tend not to be recognized as victims of trafficking at all. Drawing on a set of more than 60 individual case studies of Chinese citizens trafficked to the UK, this research explores what makes a Chinese woman, man or child vulnerable to being trafficked transnationally, how transnational trafficking operates as an element of the “migration industry” out of China, where trafficking victims end up within the Chinese ethnic economy in the UK, and why Chinese victims of transnational trafficking are poorly served in practice by official support and protection systems both in China and the UK.
Professor Jackie Sheehan joined the School of Asian Studies at University College Cork in September 2013, having spent the previous ten years as Associate Professor in Contemporary Chinese Studies in the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at Nottingham University, and before that lecturing in Chinese and East Asian history at the universities of Nottingham and Keele. With a BA in Chinese Studies from the University of Cambridge and a doctorate in Chinese history from SOAS, she has published on state-enterprise reform, employment issues, industrial relations and labour protests in China; the Cultural Revolution and the democracy movement; Chinese migrant workers in the UK; and human trafficking between China and the UK. In addition to her academic work, she serves as an expert witness in asylum and criminal cases involving Chinese nationals, particularly those related to human trafficking. She is a regular contributor to the China Policy Institute blog at http://blogs.nottingham.ac.uk/chinapolicyinstitute/
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