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Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
This editorial introduces a special issue examining borders as ideological and institutional instruments of power that shape labour, mobility, exploitation and inequality across diverse global contexts. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The text argues that migration should be understood not as a linear journey to a destination but as a broader labour regime in which both mobility and enforced immobility generate value, vulnerability and inequality long before arrival or even employment. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The article shows how international students in Northern Cyprus are embedded in “nested borders” that turn higher education into a survival pathway and a form of invisible, precarious labour for displaced people. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The article argues that state-sanctioned and illegal extractive activities in the Amazon mutually reinforce one another by undermining indigenous borders, legitimising exploitation of land and labour while threatening Munduruku sovereignty and ecosystems. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The Torres Strait is a historically fluid Indigenous borderland where mobility, work and identity have long been shaped by overlapping colonial, national and Indigenous governance systems, producing a diaspora in which movement remains a strategic expression of belonging rather than departure. Read more of the article
Issue 34 // 27th January 2026
The article argues that in Israel–Palestine borders function less as markers of sovereignty than as tools that manage, depoliticise and exploit Palestinian labour while sustaining the fiction of a conflict between two separate states within a settler-colonial system. Read more of the article
Issue 33 // 13th October 2025
Ten years on, the UK’s Modern Slavery Act remains a landmark law that raised awareness but failed to meaningfully reduce exploitation, revealing deep tensions between labour rights, immigration policy, and genuine corporate accountability. Read more of the article
Issue 33 // 13th October 2025
Migrant workers are vital to the UK economy, but since Brexit, the government’s restrictive employer-sponsored visa system has enabled widespread exploitation, deepened worker vulnerability, and undermined progressive labour reform. Read more of the article
Issue 33 // 13th October 2025
The modern slavery agenda has shifted from protecting workers’ rights to serving political and corporate interests through surveillance, border control, and spectacle, while ignoring the structural causes of exploitation. Read more of the article
Issue 33 // 13th October 2025
Ending modern slavery requires seeing survivors as people first and embedding their lived experience, dignity, and leadership into laws, workplaces, and business practices. Read more of the article
