JHEC – 2024-5(3) welcomes contributions to a special issue, guest edited by Chris Dolan, articulating and evidencing the nexus between (conflict-related) sexual violence, asylum seeking/refugee status, and human trafficking.
A single individual may be simultaneously a survivor of (conflict-related) sexual violence, an asylum seeker/refugee, and a trafficked person. And yet, public discourses – and the institutional configurations of those purporting to support those with these experiences – repeatedly erase these possibilities. For example, the so-called ‘migrants’ in small boats on the Mediterranean and the English Channel, just like those crossing the Darien Gap in Central America, are likely to be described as having been trafficked. Their related experiences as asylum seekers – who may also be survivors of sexual violence before, during or after flight – is at best discounted and at worst actively erased.
This issue offers an opportunity to demonstrate, from conceptual, empirical, experiential, and methodological angles, the interconnections in lived experiences of sexual violence and/or trafficking and/or asylum seeking, as well as to explore the disconnects in policy, practice, documentation, and theorisation.
Possible themes include but are not limited to consideration of:
- When, where and why, these categories are synonymous and/or iterative rather than mutually exclusive
- Institutional responses to each of these forms of victimisation
- Impacts of lived experiences being discounted or erased
- Uses and abuses of these erasures for political and policy purposes
- Methodological challenges in documenting and researching complex experiences of vulnerability arising from/leading to conflict-related sexual violence (CRSV)/trafficking in persons (TiP)/Asylum Seeking
- Theoretical progress that more nuanced understanding of the connections between these three areas of human experience could offer
Contributions can take the form of an academic article (word count: 6,000-8,000 words, references excluded) or a practitioner or experiential reflection (word count: 1500-2500). We request that those interested in contributing first submit an abstract of 100 words by Monday 3 June.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 03 June 2024
Notification of acceptance of abstract: 14 June 2024
Deadline for submission of articles: 11 September 2024
Publication of the volume: December 2024
For more information, see our info sheet and Editorial Policy, Editing Instructions, Rights and Permissions or e-mail us at [email protected].
JHEC (2025-6(1)), for its annual regular issue, welcomes articles on the nexus between human trafficking, enslavement and conflict-related sexual violence or on one or two of these crimes individually.
In short:
- Deadline abstract: 15 December 2024.
- Deadline submission article: 4 April 2025.
- Publication of the volume: July 2025.
- Max. word count: 6,000-8,000 words; references excluded (practitioner’s submission can be lower in number).
For more details, refer here
