Additional TraffLab Presentations
The 6th Ruppin International Conference on Immigration and Social Integration, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel, May 18-20, 2020 [in Hebrew]
Crucial Yet Disavowed: Three Decades of Relations between Israeli Farmers and Thai Migrant Workers
Yahel Kurlander (Research Fellow, Post-Doctoral Fellow)
Preventing Work Accidents in the Construction Industry, Alrov Insitute for Real Estate Research, Tel Aviv University, Faculty of Management, January 15, 2020 [in Hebrew]
Migration and Its Influence on the Rights of Construction Workers
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)
Migrant Workers in Israel: Responsibility, Ethics and Society, Beit Hillel Annual Conference, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. January 7, 2020 [in Hebrew]
Temporary Migrant Workers in Israel: Between an Employment Relationship and Exploitation - Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)
When the Patient is the Employer – Challenges in Employing a Worker within the Family - Adv. Idit Zimmerman (Clinic Attorney)
Permanent Workers in the Backyard: Migrant Agricultural Workers - Yahel Kurlander (Research Fellow), Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)
We Wanted Workers, We Got People: Ethical Questions in Temporary Migrant Work Programs - Dr. Avinoam Cohen, Dr. Yuval Livnat (Research Fellows)
Israel Law and Society Association Annual Conference: Winter 2019, Bar Ilan University Faculty of Law, December 29, 2019
TraffLab Panel: Transparency Laws and Global Standardization in the Regulation of Trans-Border Exploitation in the Global Economy
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI) and Research Fellows: Dr. Tamar Barkay, Dr. Avinoam Cohen, and Dr. Klaas Henrik Eller
The Van Leer Conference on Globalization, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. November 25-26, 2019 [in Hebrew]
TraffLab Roundtable on Labor Exploitation in the Global Age: A Critical Approach to the Interanational Struggle Against Human Trafficking
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI), Research Fellows: Dr. Tamar Barkay, Dr. Avinoam Cohen, Yahel Kurlander, Doctoral Fellow: Adv. Hanny Ben-Israel, and Dr. Tamar Megiddo (former Reseach Fellow), Yonat Ben-Ozer (former LL.M Fellow)
Rethinking Law and Boundaries: The 5th Annual TAU Workshop for Junior Scholars in Law, Tel Aviv University Buchmann Facutly of Law, November 17-19, 2019
TraffLab Panel on Mass Immigration, Human Trafficking and the Law
Commentators: Dr. Avinoam Cohen (Research Fellow) and Dr. Ken Obura (visiting Research Fellow)
EuroCrim 2019 19th Annual Conference of the European Society of Criminology, Ghent, Belgium, September 18-21, 2019
Overlaps Between Corporate Criminology and the Regulation of Labour Exploitation: A Case Study of the UK Construction Industry
Dr. Jonathan Davies (Post-doctoral Fellow)
Conference details available here.
Cooperating against CrossBorder Crime: Israeli, European, and Global Perspectives, IDC Herzlyia, Israel, September 18-19, 2019
A Labor Approach to Human Trafficking: Expanding the Anti-trafficking Tool Kit to Address Structural Causes of Severe Forms of Exploitation
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)
Labour Law Research Network Conference, Valparaiso, Chile, June 23-25, 2019
Spectrums of Agency and Vulnerability: Migration Regimes and Sectoral Segmentation in the Israeli Construction Sector
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI) and Dr. Assaf Bondy (Research Fellow)
Full Program is available here.
2nd Biennial EUROC Workshop, University of Manchester School of Law, Manchester UK, June 12-14, 2019
The Regulation and Governance of Anti-Trafficking Chains
Dr. Jonathan Davies (Post-doctoral Fellow)
2019 European Junior Faculty Forum for Public Law and Jurisprudence - London School of Economics, June 10-11 2019
Learning From the BITs: Bilateral Labor Agreements in Comparative Perspective
Dr. Tamar Megiddo (Research Fellow)
Seminar Series – Center for the Studies of Men and Masculinities, Department of Sociology, Stony Brook University (NY, USA), June 7, 2019
Labor Approach to Human Trafficking Analyzed through Theories of Masculinities
Yahel Kurlander (Research Fellow)
Workshop on Justice and Labor Rights in the Global Era, Humanities and Social Sciences Fund, Israel, June 2-4, 2019
1. Anti-Trafficking Chains: the Case of the UK Construction Sector
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI), Dr. Tamar Barkay (Research Fellow), Dr. Jonathan Davies (Post-doctoral Fellow)
2. Predatory Purchasing Practices in Global Supply Chains, the Squeeze on Workers, and the Call for a Universal Labour Guarantee
Dr. Assaf Bondy (Research Fellow)
Gallery talk: “Defense Lines” art exhibition Tel Aviv University at the Tel Aviv University Gina Shreiber Art Gallery, May 27, 2019
Between Lines of Defense and Lines of Exclusion: Migrant Workers, Asylum Seekers and Human Trafficking in Israel
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI) in conversation with with Emmy Saar of Kav LaOved
Details (in Hebrew)
Seminar: Role of Clinics in Strategic Litigation, Vrije Universiteit Faculty of Law, Amsterdam, May 9-10, 2019
Strategic Litigation Based on a Labor Approach to Human Trafficking: The Israeli Case of Temporary Migrant Workers in Foreign Construction (Execution) Companies
Dr. Hila Shamir (PI) and Adv. Idit Zimmerman (Workers’ Rights Clinic Attorney)
Beyond Discourse: Critical and Empirical Approaches to Human Trafficking, University of Kansas (USA), April 4-5, 2019
Trafficking & Forced Labour of Migrant Workers – Conceptual and Practical Challenges
Adv.Maayan Niezna (Visiting Research Fellow)
Full program available here.
Israel Law and Society Association Annual Conference: Markets, Law and Inequality, Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, January 20, 2019
TraffLab Panel: The Regulation of Markets for Temporary Work and Migration
Research Fellows: Dr. Assaf Bondy, Dr. Avinoam Cohen, Yahel Kurlander, Hanny Ben-Israel, and Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)
International Development Group Fall Forum. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 18, 2018
A Labor Perspective on Human Trafficking: Dr. Hila Shamir (PI)