Captivity, Migration, and Power in Libya

In this article, we investigate abuse, captivity, and human trafficking along routes of irregular migration in Libya after the reign Muammar Gaddafi. We argue that systematic exploitation migrants financially benefits competing actors intra-state conflicts terrorist organizations with global ambitions. Through a macro to micro analysis informed by corpus investigative reports survivor testimony from 2011 2019, map sites facility types, conditions abuse. establish treatment detainees across both official illicit channels constitutes trafficking, gender-based violence, enslavement. Decentralized mechanisms detainment directly benefit militant, criminal, vying for power. This realization compels us consider implications outsourcing control against backdrop verified rights counterterrorism concerns, insecurity.