GRADING POLICY
-ASSESSMENT METHODS:
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| Essay | 1,500 words minimum | |
-ASSESSMENT CRITERIA:
Assessment Guidelines for assigning main letter grades: A, B, C,D, and F.
A: Work of this quality directly addresses the question or problem raised and provides a coherent argument displaying an extensive knowledge of relevant information or content. This type of work demonstrates the ability to critically evaluate concepts and theory and has an element of novelty and originality. There is clear evidence of a significant amount of reading beyond that required for the course.
B: This is highly competent level of performance and directly addresses the question or problem raised.
There is a demonstration of some ability to critically evaluate theory and concepts and relate them to practice. Discussions reflect the student’s own arguments and are not simply a repetition of standard lecture and reference material. The work does not suffer from any major errors or omissions and provides evidence of reading beyond the required assignments.
C: This is an acceptable level of performance and provides answers that are clear but limited, reflecting the information offered in the lectures and reference readings.
D: This level of performances demonstrates that the student lacks a coherent grasp of the material.
Important information is omitted and irrelevant points included. In effect, the student has barely done enough to persuade the instructor that s/he should not fail.
F: This work fails to show any knowledge or understanding of the issues raised in the question. Most of the material in the answer is irrelevant.
-ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Attendance is compulsory!
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WEEK
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TOPICS TO BE DISCUSSED
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READING ASSIGNMENTS
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Week 1 (September 3 and 5)
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What is contemporary slavery? What is human trafficking?
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Quirk, Ch. 1 – p. 23-33; Scarpa, Ch. 1 – p. 3-8; Brysk and Choi-Fitzpatrick, Ch. 1 and 2
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Week 2 (September 10 and 12)
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Is slavery of the past different from the one of today?
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Bales, Ch. 1; Quirk, Ch. 3.
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Week 3 (September 17 and 19)
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Vestiges of past slavery: chattel slavery and religious slavery.
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Bales, Ch. 3; Black, p. 1-26; 35-38.
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Week 4 (September 24 and 26)
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Forced labor and child labor.
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ILO Handbook, p. 8-16; Kang Muico, p. 1-19 and 27; Lieten; Hindman.
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Week 5 (October 1 and 3)
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Debt bondage.
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Bales, Ch. 4, 5 and 6.
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Week 6 (October 8 and 10)
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Mid-term week.
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Week 7 (October 15 and 17)
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The commercial sexual exploitation of children and child sex tourism.
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Bales, Ch. 2 and Ecpat Report.
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Week 8 (October 22 and 24)
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Trafficking in persons: lack of data, estimates, causes & consequences and distribution in the world.
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Scarpa, Ch. 1 – p. 8-21.
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Week 9 (October 29 and 31)
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The forms of exploitation related to human trafficking. Peacekeeping and human trafficking.
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Scarpa, Ch. 1 – p. 22-34 and 40; Choi-Fitzpatrick, Ch. 4 and 7.
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Week 10 (November 5 and 7)
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Trafficking in human organs.
DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF PAPERS.
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Pearson, Scheper-Hughes; Scarpa, Ch. 1 - p. 34 - 39.
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Week 11 (November 12 and 14)
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Smuggling in migrants: definition. Trafficking in persons v. the smuggling of migrants.
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Bhabha and Zard; Gallagher.
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Week 12 (November 19 and 21)
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Trafficking in persons in the wider context of international migrations.
DEADLINE FOR THE SUBMISSION OF ESSAYS.
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Anti-Slavery International Report on Migration-Trafficking Nexus, p. 1-15; Choi-Fitzpatrick, Ch. 9.
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- Week 13 (November 26 and 28)
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What can be done to fight against contemporary slavery and human trafficking?
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Bales, Ch. 7; Choi-Fitzpatrick, Ch. 11.
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Week 14 (December 3 and 5)
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Con’t and Final summary.
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Week 15 (December 9 - 14)
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Final examinations
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Full List of Reading Materials (specific chapters and pages to be studied are indicated in the schedule):
Anti-Slavery International, The Migration-Trafficking Nexus (Anti-Slavery International, 2003).
Bales K., Disposable People: New Slavery in the Global Economy (University of California Press, 2004).
Bhabha J. and Zard M., “Smuggled or Trafficked?” 25 Forced Migration Review (May 2006) p. 6-8.
Black M., Women in Ritual Slavery (Anti-Slavery International, 2007).
Brysk A. and Choi-Fitzpatrick A., From Human Trafficking to Human Rights (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012).
Dauvergne C., Making People Illegal, Cambridge University Press, 2008.
ECPAT, Combating Child Sex Tourism (ECPAT, 2008).
Gallagher A., “Trafficking, Smuggling and Human Rights: Tricks and Treaties” 25 Forced Migration Review (May 2006) p. 25-28.
Hindman H. D., "Worst Forms of Child Labor" in The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey (M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
Kang Muico N., Forced Labour in North Korean Prison Camps (Anti-Slavery International, 2007).
Lieten J. K., “Toward an Integrative Theory of Child Labor” in The World of Child Labor: An Historical and Regional Survey (M.E. Sharpe, 2009).
Pearson, Coercion in the Kidney Trade? (GTZ, 2004).
Quirk J., Unfinished Business: A Comparative Study on Historical and Contemporary Slavery (UNESCO, 2008).
Scarpa, Trafficking in Persons: Modern Slavery (Oxford University Press, 2006).
Scheper-Hughes N., “Keeping an Eye on the Global Traffic in Human Organs” 361 The Lancet (2003) p. 1645-48.
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