What's Wrong with the Global Slavery Index
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13074833 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anne T Gallagher (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Publication date | 2017-04-27 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anti-Trafficking Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2286-7511 • E-ISSN: 2287-0113 |
| Publisher | Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (PUBLISHER • TH) |
| DOI | 10.14197/atr.20121786 |
| OpenAlex | W2611367076 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 2 |
The Global Slavery Index (GSI), which has been produced by the Walk Free Foundation in 2013, 2014 and 2016, seeks to calculate the number of victims of human trafficking (or ‘modern slavery’) in each country and to assess and rank government responses. Using the latest iteration of the Index, this article examines each of the three elements (vulnerability measurement; prevalence measurement and response measurement), making some preliminary findings about the quality of the methodology and its application under each heading. It concludes with a consideration of two broader issues: (i) the conspicuous lack of critical engagement with the Index; and (ii) what the Index reveals about the changing face of anti-trafficking/anti-slavery work—most particularly, the growing involvement of metrics-focused strategic philanthropy in defining the ‘problem’ and directing responses
Computer security · Epistemology · Face (sociological concept · Foundation (evidence · Geography · Government (linguistics · Heading (navigation · Index (typography · Political economy · Political science · Quality (philosophy · Rank (graph theory · Social science · Sociology · Vulnerability (computing · Work (physics · Computer Science · Engineering · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Law · Mathematics · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues
Dog Days
Re-conceptualizing trafficking-in-persons victimization using latent class analysis
Intersections between Human Trafficking and Education
Utilising the communication for development approach to prevent online child trafficking in Thailand
Machine learning methods for “wicked” problems
Identifying vulnerability to human trafficking in Bangladesh
Examining the geographies of human trafficking
Solar Value Chain and Workers
On the Unreliability of Multiple Systems Estimation for Estimating the Number of Potential Victims of Modern Slavery in the UK
A Prototype Comparison of Human Trafficking Warning Signs
Private economies of knowledge in criminal justice
Global supply chains and human rights
They Are Here Without Chains, but With Invisible Chains’
Consuming Worker Exploitation? Accounts and Justifications for Consumer (In)action to Modern Slavery
Fighting or fuelling forced labour? The Modern Slavery Act 2015, irregular migrants and the vulnerabilising role of the UK’s hostile environment
Growing evidence of the interconnections between modern slavery, environmental degradation, and climate change
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Modern Heroes, Modern Slaves? Listening to migrant domestic workers’ everyday temporalities
Re-politicising Anti-Trafficking
Improving the Estimate of Trafficking in Human Beings and Modern Slavery by Integrating Data From ILO/Walk Free/IOM and Unodc
Unfree Labour and the Capitalist State
Making Statistics on Human Trafficking Work
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2.88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |