Editorial: Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet

Denise Brennan; Sallie Yea

doi:10.14197/atr.201225251

Editorial: Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet

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Denise Brennan
Sallie Yea

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https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201225251

Abstract

This Editorial introduces a Special Issue of the Anti-Trafficking Review that analyses the links between climate change, migration, and exploitative labour. It documents some of the deteriorating climate-induced labour conditions and outlines the main arguments made in the Special Issue contributions. It concludes with several recommendations for future research and possible actions to protect workers on a heating planet.

Author Biographies

Denise Brennan

Denise Brennan is a 2025–26 Harvard Radcliffe Fellow where she is writing a new book Work on A Heated Planet. She is the author of Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States and is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Georgetown University, the United States.

Sallie Yea

Sallie Yea is an Associate Professor of Human Geography in the Environmental Science Programme at Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia. She has been conducting research with precarious migrant workers from or in Asia for more than twenty years.

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30-10-2025

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Brennan, D., & Yea, S. (2025). Editorial: Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet. Anti-Trafficking Review, (25), 1–10. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201225251

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No. 25 (2025): Special Issue - Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet

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