No. 25 (2025): Special Issue - Climate Emergency and Work on a Heated Planet
This Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review explores the impacts of the climate crisis on migration, precarious labour, and human trafficking. Contributions from across Asia, Africa, and the Americas illustrate how slow- and rapid-onset events, such as droughts, soil erosion, floods and typhoons—made increasingly frequent and severe by the climate crisis—destroy homes and livelihoods, forcing people to undertake risky migrations or accept exploitative employment. Rising surface and sea temperatures are also making working conditions in already precarious sectors, such as agriculture, construction, and fishing, unbearable, prompting us to reconsider what would count as forced labour on a heated planet. Contributors further highlight that the climate crisis disproportionately affects people from disadvantaged groups, including elderly and disabled people, temporary and undocumented migrants, incarcerated people, and others.
