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The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
The David W. Fentress Family Letters, 1856-1969
No full textTranscript of a letter by an unidentified author to David Fentress regarding sharing federal newspapers and the banning of federal newspapers in some areas. The author passes on the news of the war including the destruction of the Federal merchantmen by the Confederate fleet. He passes along world news: Russia preparing to go to War with Europe and how that could negatively affect the Confederacy. There is also speculation on the future of the war
David Nelson Oral History
No full textOral histories created by University of Kansas students, staff and faculty as part of the Religion in Kansas Project are archived at http://hdl.handle.net/1808/12524 in KU ScholarWorks, the digital repository of the University of Kansas.Oral history interview with David Nelson conducted by Rachel Gadd-Nelson in Kansas City, Kansas, on October 31, 2009. In this interview, David Nelson discusses his journey from his childhood experiences in the Swedish Lutheran church in Burdick, Kansas, through his interest in political science and agricultural development work overseas, to his decision to become a Lutheran minister. David Nelson served as the pastor at Abiding Hope Lutheran Church in Olathe, Kansas, from 1988 to 1991, at
Our Saviour's Lutheran Church in Burbank, Illinois, from 1991 to1995, and at St. Paul Lutheran Church in Kodiak, Alaska, from 1995 to 2001. This interview was conducted for the Religion in Kansas course taught at the University of Kansas by Dr. Timothy Miller in the fall of 2009.Friends of the Department of Religious Studie
Portrait of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011 /
No full textTitle from acquisitions documentation.; Part of the collection: Portraits of author David Foster at the National Library of Australia, Canberra, 8 June 2011.; Acquired in digital format; access copy available online.; Mode of access: Online.; Photographed by a staff member of the National Library of Australia
Child Sexual Exploitation
No full textSince the emergence of the modern slavery agenda, ‘Asian grooming gangs’ have been depicted as the primary perpetrators of child sexual exploitation. This chapter considers whether this terminology accurately reflects the evidence collated by independent investigations into child sexual exploitation cases in England between 2015 and 2020. We argue that the focus on ethnicity is misleading and has redirected attention away from the failings of the police and social services to protect those for whom the state has a duty of care. While conscious of the need to interpret offenders’ accounts critically and carefully, we argue that they do reveal complexities that are important to consider if the exploitation of children and vulnerable young adults is to be prevented. We conclude by highlighting the need to understand how some men normalize child sexual exploitation in the context of ‘parties’ in which sex is exchanged for drugs, alcohol, food and accommodation without regard for the stark differentials in power between some of the adults and young people who attend them
Sham Marriage
No full textFollowers of the British press in the mid-2010s could be forgiven for thinking that an epidemic of modern slavery had overtaken the UK, the epitome of which was evident in the cruelty visited on those sold into sham marriages. In this chapter, we discuss how marriages of convenience have become regulated through immigration controls, and why they are not always reducible to the exploitation and entrapment associated with modern slavery. Without denying the harms produced by forced marriages, the two case studies presented in this chapter raise deeper questions about why some people need to pay for or arrange marriages, and how their motives are shaped by the fear of immigration controls, deportation and indebtedness, sometimes derivative of inequalities caused by the legacies of European colonialism
Evil Slave Masters as Political Folk Devils
No full textModern slavery, as a way of framing extreme forms of exploitation, entered into the currency of public debate in the UK at a very particular historical conjuncture: when there was a preoccupation with taking back control of the UK’s borders, inspired largely by a sustained political focus on the threat of unmanaged migration and the menace posed by foreign national offenders. This chapter situates the development of the Modern Slavery Act 2015 within this context, illustrating how statistical claims about the size of the problem obscured the ways in which immigration controls compound the disadvantages faced by those with limited rights to travel and work in the UK, and redirected attention towards the traffickers and slaveholders as ‘folk devils’ said to be ‘hiding in plain sight’. A review of the existing empirical research on traffickers reveals how misleading such scapegoating is
Organized Criminals?
No full textThis chapter describes how concerns about the dangers posed by ‘Mr Big’ mafia bosses, who have secured the skills and resources to threaten national security, have shaped global responses to trafficking. Through the analysis of four case studies relating to offenders involved with criminal enterprises that spanned international borders, we appraise how useful the concept of organized crime is in relation to modern slavery. The four men depicted in this chapter were all influenced by father figures who they revered as well as by paternalistic and macho attitudes towards women and family life that obscured how limited the options were confronting some of the women who became indebted through illegal migration journeys, or who made such journeys because they had debts to pay
Introduction
No full textWho are the perpetrators of modern slavery that the British government is committed to bringing to justice? Despite the re-emergence of modern slavery on the policy agenda, probing questions about the motives responsible have rarely been asked or answered. Political discourse has instead presumed modern slavery to be orchestrated by international organized criminals and ‘evil’ doers whose behaviour defies social scientific explanation. This introductory chapter provides an overview of the book and argues that we need to engage with offenders’ accounts of perpetrating modern slavery, even though we may disagree with what they may say, if we are to have a chance of reducing the prevalence of extreme exploitation. What our research shows is that it is the pervasiveness of the structural disadvantages faced by victims that enforces their reliance on those who exploit them, few of whom are ‘organized criminals’ and some of whom are similarly socially excluded and traumatized
Labour Exploitation
No full textThis chapter focuses on crimes of exploitation committed in the interests of legitimate business activity and presents three case studies of exploitation in the food processing, garment and catering sectors. While labour exploitation became the type of modern slavery most commonly reported to the National Referral Mechanism in the mid-2010s, few perpetrators were prosecuted. Drawing on Box’s (1983) analysis of how crimes that serve businesses become mystified, we illustrate how some labour exploiters convince themselves that they are merely doing what is necessary to secure jobs in industries where labour rights and regulation are considered impediments to making a profit
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