Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration (February 23-25, 2006)

Day 1: Thursday, February 23, 7:30 - 9:00 PM
CAS / MillerCOMM Keynote Address
Levis Faculty Center
919 W. Illinois
Urbana, IL

"Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Global Problem" (Real Media file)

Human Trafficking and Slavery: A Global Problem (PowerPoint file)

Susan Forbes Martin, Executive Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration, Georgetown University

Day 2: Friday, February 24
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Regional Problem
Funk ACES Library, Heritage Room

8:45-9:00 AM
Welcome

Edward A. Kolodziej, Director of the Center for Global Studies, UIUC

9:00-10:45 AM: Europe
West and East

European Union

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 1 (Quicktime file)

Trafficking and Slavery (T/S) Systems And the European Union: A First Cut (PDF file)

Chair:
Kieran Donaghy, Director, European Union Center, UIUC

Presenter:
Mark J. Miller, Emma Smith Morris Professor of Political Science and International Relations, University of Delaware and Managing Editor, International Migration Review.

Eastern Europe, Russia, and Central Asia

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 2 (Quicktime file)

Trafficking from the Former USSR and Eastern Europe (PowerPoint file)
Paper Presentation: Human Trafficking from the Former USSR and Eastern Europe (PDF file)

Presenter:
Louise Shelley, Director of the Transnational Crime and Corruption Center, School of International Service, American University

Respondents:
Patrick Keenan, College of Law, Human Rights Clinic, UIUC

Carol Leff, Department of Political Science, UIUC

11:00 AM-12:15 PM: Asia
Northeast & Southeast Asia

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 3 (Quicktime file)

Chair:
Edward A. Kolodziej, Director, Center for Global Studies, UIUC

Northeast Asia

Trafficking of North Korean Refugees in China (PowerPoint file)

Presenter:
Donna M. Hughes, Eleanor M. and Oscar M. Carlson Endowed Chair, Women's Studies Program, University of Rhode Island

Respondent:
Thomas Ginsburg, College of Law, UIUC

1:30-2:45 PM
Latin America and the Caribbean

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 4 (Quicktime file)

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery in Latin America (PDF file)

Presenter:
David E. Guinn, Senior Research Scholar, International Human Rights Law Institute, DePaul University

Chair:
Nils Jacobsen, Director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, UIUC

Respondent:
Werner Baer, Jorge Paulo Lemann Distinguished Professor, Department of Economics, UIUC

3:00-4:45 PM
Middle East & Africa

Africa

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 5 (Quicktime file)

Combating Human Trafficking: A Call to Regulate the Recruitment Industry (PowerPoint file)
Combating Human Trafficking: A Call for the Regulation of the Recruitment Industry (PDF file)

An Overview of Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa (PDF file)

Chair:
Rebecca Ginsburg, Department of Landscape Architecture, UIUC

Presenters:
Carol Allais, Department of Sociology, UNISA, Pretoria

Ricardo Wyngaard, South African Human Rights Lawyer

Respondent:
Merle Bowen, Department of Political Science, UIUC

Middle East

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 6 (Quicktime file)

Chair:
Hadi Esfahani, Department of Economics, UIUC

Presenter:
Mohamed Mattar, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University

Respondent:
Ken Cuno, Department of History and Director, Program in South Asian and Middle East Studies, UIUC

Day 3: Saturday, February 25
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: American Dilemma
Funk ACES Library, Heritage Room

9:00-10:30 AM

"Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: American Dilemma" (Quicktime file)

Chair:
Edward A. Kolodziej, Director, Center for Global Studies, UIUC

Presenter:
Patrick J. Keenan and Students, College of Law, Human Rights Clinic, UIUC

Respondent:
Elissa C. Steglich, Managing Attorney, Asylum, Trafficking and Children's Projects, Midwest Immigrant & Human Rights Center

10:30 AM - 10:45AM
Rescue and Restore: Focus on U.S. Human Trafficking Victims
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Trafficking in Persons Report (PDF file)

11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: A Summing Up of Trafficking and Slavery as a Significant Transnational Crime

Criminal Trafficking and Slavery: The Dark Side of Global and Regional Migration Part 9 (Quicktime file)

Markets, Networks, and Trafficking in Women (PowerPoint file)
Trafficking in Women Markets, Networks and Organized Crime (PDF file)

Chair:
Gale Summerfield, Director, Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program, UIUC

Presenter:
Phil Williams, Department of Political Science, Pittsburg University

Respondent:
Paul Diehl, Henning Larsen Professor, Department of Political Science, UIUC

Formal Conclusion of the Conference

1:30-4:50 PM: Teacher's Workshop and Youth Forum