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A Socio-Legal Study of Stakeholder Perspectives on the Identification of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation Across European States.
No full textThis thesis is a socio-legal analysis of stakeholder perspectives on the identification of
victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation (THB-LE),
focusing on the practical operation of the identification procedure, multi-stakeholder cooperation
and, training and awareness measures. Through 42 semi-structured interviews
with labour inspectors, criminal law enforcement officials, trade unionists and
representatives from non-governmental organisations, it captures bottom-up insights on
the gap between the law and practice of identification. This is combined with a top-down
analysis of Article 10 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking
in Human Beings. Overall, the data highlights both limitations to the international legal
framework itself, and gaps between the obligation to identify under international law and
its practical realisation in Europe.
The interview findings suggest that the identification procedure should be understood as
encompassing the two distinct processes of detection and formal identification. Yet,
Article 10 only covers formal identification. The research thus finds a significant lacuna
in the legal framework. The analysis also reveals practical barriers to effective
identification relating to, for example, shifting the burden of identification to victims and
difficulties in distinguishing the boundary between a labour law violation and THB-LE.
The thesis establishes that the enduring criminal justice approach to trafficking in human
beings hinders the effectiveness of the identification procedure by limiting the formal
identification process to criminal law enforcement officials. Concurrently, it reveals
challenges to the substantive realisation of a multi-stakeholder integrated approach due
to, inter alia, stakeholders’ conflicting agendas and the failure to adequately recognise
certain labour market stakeholders, including trade unions.
Finally, the thesis makes recommendations for states to improve the practice of
identification, for example, by mapping the duties of relevant stakeholders to delineate
areas of convergence and align their efforts
A Socio-Legal Study of Stakeholder Perspectives on the Identification of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation Across European States.
Full text linkThis thesis is a socio-legal analysis of stakeholder perspectives on the identification of
victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation (THB-LE),
focusing on the practical operation of the identification procedure, multi-stakeholder cooperation
and, training and awareness measures. Through 42 semi-structured interviews
with labour inspectors, criminal law enforcement officials, trade unionists and
representatives from non-governmental organisations, it captures bottom-up insights on
the gap between the law and practice of identification. This is combined with a top-down
analysis of Article 10 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking
in Human Beings. Overall, the data highlights both limitations to the international legal
framework itself, and gaps between the obligation to identify under international law and
its practical realisation in Europe.
The interview findings suggest that the identification procedure should be understood as
encompassing the two distinct processes of detection and formal identification. Yet,
Article 10 only covers formal identification. The research thus finds a significant lacuna
in the legal framework. The analysis also reveals practical barriers to effective
identification relating to, for example, shifting the burden of identification to victims and
difficulties in distinguishing the boundary between a labour law violation and THB-LE.
The thesis establishes that the enduring criminal justice approach to trafficking in human
beings hinders the effectiveness of the identification procedure by limiting the formal
identification process to criminal law enforcement officials. Concurrently, it reveals
challenges to the substantive realisation of a multi-stakeholder integrated approach due
to, inter alia, stakeholders’ conflicting agendas and the failure to adequately recognise
certain labour market stakeholders, including trade unions.
Finally, the thesis makes recommendations for states to improve the practice of
identification, for example, by mapping the duties of relevant stakeholders to delineate
areas of convergence and align their efforts
A Socio-Legal Study of Stakeholder Perspectives on the Identification of Victims of Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation Across European States.
No full textThis thesis is a socio-legal analysis of stakeholder perspectives on the identification of
victims of trafficking in human beings for the purpose of labour exploitation (THB-LE),
focusing on the practical operation of the identification procedure, multi-stakeholder cooperation
and, training and awareness measures. Through 42 semi-structured interviews
with labour inspectors, criminal law enforcement officials, trade unionists and
representatives from non-governmental organisations, it captures bottom-up insights on
the gap between the law and practice of identification. This is combined with a top-down
analysis of Article 10 of the Council of Europe Convention on Action against Trafficking
in Human Beings. Overall, the data highlights both limitations to the international legal
framework itself, and gaps between the obligation to identify under international law and
its practical realisation in Europe.
The interview findings suggest that the identification procedure should be understood as
encompassing the two distinct processes of detection and formal identification. Yet,
Article 10 only covers formal identification. The research thus finds a significant lacuna
in the legal framework. The analysis also reveals practical barriers to effective
identification relating to, for example, shifting the burden of identification to victims and
difficulties in distinguishing the boundary between a labour law violation and THB-LE.
The thesis establishes that the enduring criminal justice approach to trafficking in human
beings hinders the effectiveness of the identification procedure by limiting the formal
identification process to criminal law enforcement officials. Concurrently, it reveals
challenges to the substantive realisation of a multi-stakeholder integrated approach due
to, inter alia, stakeholders’ conflicting agendas and the failure to adequately recognise
certain labour market stakeholders, including trade unions.
Finally, the thesis makes recommendations for states to improve the practice of
identification, for example, by mapping the duties of relevant stakeholders to delineate
areas of convergence and align their efforts
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Key Stakeholder Perspectives on the Potential Impact of COVID-19 on Human Trafficking for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation
Full text linkWhile human trafficking in its different forms has received growing recognition, currently there is an absence of research providing empirical evidence on the potential impact of COVID-19. COVID-19 and its related challenges provide a lens through which the vulnerability and complexities inherent in human trafficking can be further ascertained and analysed. This article explores challenges encountered by key stakeholders primarily operating in the field of countering human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation across Europe. These challenges are categorised as increased vulnerability to human trafficking for the purpose of labour exploitation; the impact on services and support; and limitations on professional duties. A qualitative method involving sixty-five semi-structured interviews was employed to capture the on-the-ground experiences of a diverse cohort of stakeholders active during the pandemic
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
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