Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK

Lonergan, Gwyneth; Lewis, Hannah; Tomalin, Emma; Waite, Louise

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“…In addition to campaigning to change legislation and reform state approaches to labour law enforcement, a number of FBOs have also been operating alongside/with state agents with a view to improving approaches to labour standards enforcement (Lonergan et al, 2021; see Wills et al, 2009 for a further example of FBO agency in campaigning for improved labour standards). Several have been quite active in this regard, including the Santa Marta Group (SMG), an international network of Catholic Bishops spanning over 35 countries (including the UK and Ireland) established in the UK in the early 2010s.…”

Section: Unpacking Labour's Agency In Labour Inspectionmentioning

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Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

Hastings

Herod

2023

Environ Plan A

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State labour inspection has been relatively underresearched in economic and labour geography, despite its prospective role in tackling worker exploitation as part of national state regulatory strategies. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically examining state labour inspection as a government function capable of upholding labour standards within and across economic space. A key contribution of the paper is to make stronger connections between workers’ spatial strategies and their ability to shape how labour inspection and standards enforcement is carried out. Focusing upon the UK and Ireland, we examine different ways in which some labour-friendly groups have sought to contest but also to support state labour inspection efforts with a view to protecting workers.

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Section: Unpacking Labour's Agency In Labour Inspectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

Hastings

Herod

2023

Environ Plan A

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“…FBOs play important roles in the areas of the prevention of human trafficking and the protection of the victims [1,10,[26][27][28][29][30]. They can access substantial resources through religious networks [6,31].…”

Section: Fbos' Engagement In the Fight Against Human Traffickingmentioning

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Experiences of Faith-Based Organizations as Key Stakeholders in Policy Responses to Human Trafficking

Hounmenou

2023

Societies

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Faith-based organizations (FBOs) are substantially involved in the anti-human trafficking movement. Yet, limited research is available on their crucial roles in the field. This study explored their input in anti-trafficking policy implementation in the US by examining their motivations to engage in anti-human trafficking work, their distinctive competencies as stakeholders, and their experiences and challenges in providing anti-human trafficking services. A purposive sample of 16 leaders from 14 FBOs with anti-human trafficking work experience was recruited. A semi-structured interview guide was used to collect data. A thematic analysis of the data was conducted. The findings showed that FBOs have experience in various aspects of prevention, protection, and even assistance in prosecuting human trafficking cases and at multiple levels of intervention. The distinctive capacities of FBOs for policy advocacy, training, and housing services for trafficking survivors provide a glimpse of their leading roles in human trafficking policy implementation. Operating primarily outside public funding allows FBOs to develop short-term and long-term services for trafficking survivors without time constraints. The FBOs in the study reported using a non-discriminatory, survivor-centered, and trauma-informed approach in their anti-human trafficking service delivery. All the respondents in the study concurred that efforts by any FBOs to convert trafficking survivors to a particular faith are unethical and counterproductive. The implications for practice, policy implementation, and research are discussed.

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“…Different than Lonergan et al (2021), who explored the issue of postsecular rapprochement between faith and secular organisations in the UK that provided services to those involved in trafficking, forced labour and slavery, this paper explores the combination of the infusion of faith in FBOs in Cambodia that served victims of sexual exploitation, trafficking and those involved in sex work and factors related to the development context in which they provided these services. Furthermore, the argument in this paper, and the context in which it is rooted, is unique when compared with many other works examining FBOs (among many, e.g., are Beaumont & Cloke, 2012, whose contributions focused on FBOs in a mostly European context).…”

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Exploring why religious faith may distinguish faith‐based from non‐faith‐based NGOs: Theoretical insights from Cambodia

Frame

2022

J of Intl Development

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Faith-based and non-faith-based non-governmental organisations (NGOs) are significant service providers in the developing world, yet limited research has compared these organisations, especially in the context of Southeast Asia. This paper explores a theoretical concept related to why religious faith may distinguish Christian faith-based organisations (FBOs) from non-faith-based NGOs. Qualitative data were analysed from 41 interviews across 13 Christian FBOs and 12 non-faith-based NGOs working with women and children in Cambodia who have been (or were at risk of being) sexually exploited, trafficked or involved in sex work. Faith was found to distinguish FBOs from non-faith-based NGOs in all four of the dimensions comparatively examined in the study: (1) goals and missions, (2) motivations, (3) approaches to care and (4) conceptions of success. It is argued that the contrasts between these two types of organisations, in terms of faith, are related to the combination of both the infusion of faith in FBOs and factors related to the development context in which these organisations worked, a theoretical concept posited as Context-Infusion Convergence.

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Distinctive or Professionalised? Understanding the Postsecular in Faith-Based Responses to Trafficking, Forced Labour and Slavery in the UK

Cited by 7 publications

References 51 publications

Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

Experiences of Faith-Based Organizations as Key Stakeholders in Policy Responses to Human Trafficking

Exploring why religious faith may distinguish faith‐based from non‐faith‐based NGOs: Theoretical insights from Cambodia

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