ABSTRACT
This chapter brings the research findings in this book together to suggest that across geographic, cultural, political and social divides, systems of justice struggle to reconcile experiences of exploitation that do not fit within their confines. We lay an argument for responses to human trafficking and, in fact, exploitation of migrant workers to be attendant to the diversity of experience. We argue for responses that do not provide fodder for increasing punitive regulation and control of migration in the name of eradicating exploitation. Across both volumes, we have emphasised that a framework of response is needed where migration and mobility are at the forefront. States and multi-state bodies must work to enhance labour mobility and increased state responsibility for the counterproductive consequences of increased border fortification. Currently, despite the rhetoric of human rights, the responses to both human trafficking and modern slavery do not emphasise enough that these practices most often involve transnational migrant subjects and generally fail to get traction in the effort to defend human rights. This chapter details specific ways to develop an evidence base to counter the deafening calls to ‘end modern slavery’ and ‘eradicate human trafficking’ with too little notice paid to the logic and impact of efforts to achieve these aims.
