Amy Weatherburn
Biographic Data
| ID | 6818349 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amy Weatherburn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amy |
| FAMILY NAME | Weatherburn |
| SIGNATURE | WEATHERBURN A |
| AFFILIATIONS | KU Leuven |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4665-9313 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Rethinking access to protection and wage recovery for victims of human trafficking for labour exploitation: A capabilities perspective
Migrant worker victimisation: EU labour migration law and structural injustice
Criminal justice responses to migrant worker exploitation are insufficient. The deficiency can be overcome by a shift towards a perspective that goes beyond criminal law and embodies a response that expands the guarantee of victims’ rights to include social and labour rights protection. In the European Union (EU), the protection of migrant workers’ rights and entitlements – including those related to access to justice when faced with victimisatio…
Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law
The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking. However, in failings to clarify the exact scope and meaning of exploitation, it has created an ambiguity as to what constitutes exploitation of labour in criminal law. The international…
Irregular Migration as a Challenge for Democracy
“Immigration has emerged as the defining issue of our times. [...] The challenge that the immigration issue poses to the future of European democracy is real. Immigration itself is a genuine challenge, but the fundamental challenge that immigration brings to the fore is a domestic one, it is about fundamentally different political visions that cut through the citizenry of Europe’s nation states. With that, it becomes critically important how thes…
Dominika Borg Jansson, Modern Slavery: A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons
The phenomenon of human trafficking is not diminishing, it is in fact increasing, despite significant international anti-trafficking efforts, and the emphasis placed on the international legal framework to harmonize the criminalization of human trafficking. 1 There is a need to ensure that the scope of human trafficking is understood so that measures to adequately address the situation are effective. The international community has acknowledged t…
Localizing Fundamental Rights in the European Union: What is the Role of Local and Regional Authorities, and How to Strengthen It
© 2015 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Recent literature has pointed to the importance of localizing fundamental rights in order to further strengthen their effective protection. In this context attention has been paid mainly to civil society organizations, but not as much to local and regional authorities. What role can local and regional authorities play in enforcing fundamental rights in the European…
Localizing Fundamental Rights in the European Union: What is the Role of Local and Regional Authorities, and How to Strengthen It
© 2015 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Recent literature has pointed to the importance of localizing fundamental rights in order to further strengthen their effective protection. In this context attention has been paid mainly to civil society organizations, but not as much to local and regional authorities. What role can local and regional authorities play in enforcing fundamental rights in the European…
Dominika Borg Jansson, Modern Slavery: A Comparative Study of the Definition of Trafficking in Persons
The phenomenon of human trafficking is not diminishing, it is in fact increasing, despite significant international anti-trafficking efforts, and the emphasis placed on the international legal framework to harmonize the criminalization of human trafficking. 1 There is a need to ensure that the scope of human trafficking is understood so that measures to adequately address the situation are effective. The international community has acknowledged t…
Localizing Fundamental Rights in the European Union: What is the Role of Local and Regional Authorities, and How to Strengthen It
© 2015 The Author 2015. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. Recent literature has pointed to the importance of localizing fundamental rights in order to further strengthen their effective protection. In this context attention has been paid mainly to civil society organizations, but not as much to local and regional authorities. What role can local and regional authorities play in enforcing fundamental rights in the European…
Irregular Migration as a Challenge for Democracy
“Immigration has emerged as the defining issue of our times. [...] The challenge that the immigration issue poses to the future of European democracy is real. Immigration itself is a genuine challenge, but the fundamental challenge that immigration brings to the fore is a domestic one, it is about fundamentally different political visions that cut through the citizenry of Europe’s nation states. With that, it becomes critically important how thes…
Labour Exploitation in Human Trafficking Law
The 2000 Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime provides the first internationally agreed definition of the human trafficking. However, in failings to clarify the exact scope and meaning of exploitation, it has created an ambiguity as to what constitutes exploitation of labour in criminal law. The international…
Rethinking access to protection and wage recovery for victims of human trafficking for labour exploitation: A capabilities perspective
Migrant worker victimisation: EU labour migration law and structural injustice
Criminal justice responses to migrant worker exploitation are insufficient. The deficiency can be overcome by a shift towards a perspective that goes beyond criminal law and embodies a response that expands the guarantee of victims’ rights to include social and labour rights protection. In the European Union (EU), the protection of migrant workers’ rights and entitlements – including those related to access to justice when faced with victimisatio…
Human rights (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Sex work and related issues (4 works) · Human trafficking (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Criminology (2 works) · European union (2 works) · Labour law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works)