Human Trafficking and Slavery Reconsidered: Conceptual Limits and States' Positive Obligations in European Law

Vladislava Stoyanova

Mar 2017 · Cambridge University Press

About this ebook

By reconsidering the definitions of human trafficking, slavery, servitude and forced labour, Vladislava Stoyanova demonstrates how, in embracing the human trafficking framework, the international community has sidelined the human rights law commitments against slavery, servitude and forced labour that in many respects provide better protection for abused migrants. Stoyanova proposes two corrective steps to this development: placing a renewed emphasis on determining the definitional scope of slavery, servitude or forced labour, and gaining a clearer understanding of states' positive human rights obligations. This book compares anti-trafficking and human rights frameworks side-by-side and focuses its analysis on the Council of Europe's Trafficking Convention and Article 4 of the European Convention on Human Rights. With innovative arguments and pertinent case studies, this book is an important contribution to the field and will appeal to students, scholars and legal practitioners interested in human rights law, migration law, criminal law and EU law.

About the author

Vladislava Stoyanova is a postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Law, Lunds Universitet, Sweden. She is a lecturer in Migration Law and Human Rights Law and the director of the Migration Law course. She has published extensively in the field of human trafficking, slavery, migration law, refugee law and human rights law, and is an expert in Bulgarian migration and refugee law.