Jennifer M. Chacón

TL;DR: The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) as mentioned in this paper has been used to protect trafficking victims, prosecute traffickers and prevent human trafficking in the U.S. In spite of apparent widespread political support and seemingly ample funding, the TVPA's success has been modest.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors discuss the criminalization of migration in the United States and present several examples of the use of criminal prosecutions in the migration context in order to explore an undertheorized effect of this trend, namely that the protective features of criminal investigation and adjudication are melting away at the edges in certain criminal cases involving migration-related offenses.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the ways in which anti-trafficking advocacy and policies can actually fuel the discourse that drives restrictionist immigration policies and expose some of the tensions and trade-offs between immigration policy choices and antitrafficking efforts, and explore the extent to which these efforts can be understood as part of a larger trend of states and localities attempting to assert greater legal authority to participate in immigration enforcement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the criminalization of migration in the United States and present several examples of the use of criminal prosecutions in the migration context in order to explore an undertheorized effect of this trend, namely that the protective features of criminal investigation and adjudication are melting away at the edges in certain criminal cases involving migration-related offenses.

TL;DR: This paper explored the origins and consequences of the blurred boundaries between immigration control, crime control and national security, specifically as related to the removal of non-citizens, and disentangled the use of removal for criminal and immigration law enforcement ends from national security removals.