Human Trafficking and Trauma in the Digital Era The Ongoing Tragedy of the Trade in Refugees from Eritrea.
This research is the second in a four-part series Connected and Mobile: Migration and Human Trafficking in Africa. The work is based on interviews and data collected by the authors of each chapter. Where useful, information was shared between different authors and used in multiple chapters. Over a hundred new interviews were conducted for the purpose of this research between 2015 and 2016 in various countries including several European countries, Uganda, Sudan, and Ethiopia. In addition, information was received from within Eritrea and Egypt. Furthermore, several focus group meetings were held to discuss the findings.
Editors: Mirjam van Reisen, Munyaradzi Maware
Year: 2017
Publisher: Langaa RPCIG, Cameroon
Language: English
ISBN: 978-9-95676-487-7
Pages: 520
Book Chapters
Chapter 1 – Introduction by Mirjam van Reisen ………… 12
Part 1 – The Ongoing Human Trafficking Crises ………… 17
- Chapter 2 – Human Trafficking in the Sinai: Mapping the Routes and Facilitators by Mirjam Van Reisen, Meron Estefanos & Lena Reim ………… 19
- Chapter 3 – The Exodus from Eritrea and Who is Benefiting by Mirjam Van Reisen & Meron Estefanos ………… 95
- Chapter 4 – Human Trafficking Connecting to Terrorism and Organ Trafficking: Libya and Egypt by Mirjam Van Reisen & Meron Estefanos ………… 159
- Chapter 5 – Eritrean Unaccompanied Minors in Human Trafficking by Mirjam van Reisen & Taha Al-Qasim ………… 193
- Chapter 6 – The Fragmentation of Families: Eritrean Women in Exile in Uganda by Eyob Ghilazghy, Sacha Kuilman & Lena Reim ………… 221
Part 2 – Severe Trauma ………… 269
Chapter 7: The Trauma of Survivors of Sinai Trafficking by Mirjam Van Reisen, Selam Kidane & Lena Reim ………… 271
Chapter 8: Collective Trauma from Sinai Trafficking: A Blow to the Fabric of Eritrean Society by Selam Kidane & Mirjam Van Reisen ………… 317
Part 3 – A Crises of Accountability ………… 347
Chapter 9: Crimes against Humanity: The Commission of Inquiry on Eritrea by Susan Höfner & Zara Tewolde-Berhan ………… 349
Chapter 10: The Long Arm of the Eritrean Regime in the Netherlands by Klara Smits, DSP-Group & Tilburg University ………… 369
Chapter 11: Atlantic Council: The Eritrean Regime’s US Spin Doctors? by François Christophe ………… 405
Chapter 12: The Policy Agenda in Europe and Africa by Zara Tewolde-Berhan, Martin Plaut, & Klara Smits ………… 429
Chapter 13: Prosecuting Sinai Trafficking: An Overview of Options by Daniel Mekonnen & Wegi Sereke …………. 465