This paper empirically analyzes the relationship between migration and human trafficking inflows into Germany during the period between 2001 and 2010. My results suggest that migrant networks, measured by migrant stocks from a specific source country, have a causal linkage with the illicit, exploitative form of migration – human trafficking – from that respective country. However, the network e...

In this essay for the collection on Human Trafficking, Exploitation, and Health, Elena Ronda-Perez and colleague discuss ways occupational health services can detect and address labour trafficking.

A a recent labor floor sign-out round, the resident presented a laboring patient with a complicated social history. The patient was a homeless teenager who had just arrived from Texas and was having an unplanned, undesired pregnancy. I somewhat sheepishly asked, “Any possibility of human trafficking here?” I realized that, despite having recently become educated about this topic, I still did no...