No. 25 (2025): Special Issue - Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet
This Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores the impacts of the climate crisis on migration, precarious labour, and human trafficking. Contributions from across Asia, Africa, and the Americas illustrate how slow- and rapid-onset events, such as droughts, soil erosion, floods and typhoons—made increasingly frequent and severe by the climate crisis—destroy homes and livelihoods, forcing people to undertake risky migrations or accept exploitative employment. Rising surface and sea temperatures are also making working conditions in already precarious sectors, such as agriculture, construction, and fishing, unbearable, prompting us to reconsider what would count as forced labour on a heated planet. Contributors further highlight that the climate crisis disproportionately affects people from disadvantaged groups, including elderly and disabled people, temporary and undocumented migrants, incarcerated people, and others.
Articles
The Climate Crisis as a Poverty Crisis: How climate change amplifies (im)mobility and gendered vulnerabilities
Benedikte Raft, Kolja Dahlin12-30Climate-induced Exploitation: Workers’ rights and protections on a heated planet
Denise Brennan, Kathleen Kim, Julia Jackson31-51Climate Brides: (Un)Tying the knots between climate change and child marriage
Reetika Revathy Subramanian52-70Decent Work in a Changing Climate
Bethany Jackson, Nicole Tichenor Blackstone, Jessica L Decker Sparks109-129Solar Value Chain and Workers: Supporting a just transition in Australia by strengthening human rights due diligence
Phoebe Michelmore, Marinella Marmo130-151
Short articles
What Does It Take to Protect Livelihoods and Forests? Insights from workers and communities in the Brazilian Amazon opposing deforestation and slave labour
Jolemia Nascimento das Chagas, Dionéia Ferreira, Ginny Baumann158-164Fields of Uncertainty: Climate, extraction, and the struggles of rice farmers in the Philippines
Merry Jean A. Caparas, Maria Aurora Teresita W. Tabada165-170The Battered Generation: Precarity of ageing people and people with impairments in climate-affected borderlands
Tasnia Khandaker Prova, Era Robbani, Humaun Kabir171-174Interview: Currents of Despair: The political ecology of migration and trafficking in the Mekong region
David A. Feingold, Denise Brennan175-183
