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Isabel Schoultz

Isabel Schoultz

Senior lecturer

Isabel Schoultz

Access to justice and social rights for victims of trafficking and labour exploitation in Sweden

Author

  • Isabel Schoultz
  • Polina Smiragina-Ingelström

Editor

  • Stine Piilgaard Porner Nielsen
  • Ole Hammerslev

Summary, in English

This chapter delves into the challenges encountered by victims of human trafficking and other forms of labour exploitation in Sweden as they struggle to access social rights and justice. By drawing from theories of victimisation as an interactional process, the study examines the role of professionals such as government agents, social services, unions, and NGOs as facilitators in assisting victims in gaining access to social rights and justice. The chapter underscores how access to justice and social rights is intricately intertwined with the victim identification process, the migration regime, and the gendered nature of assistance programmes. The limited access to social rights for victims may be attributed to the principles of inclusion and exclusion associated with the welfare state and the logic of the migration regime.

Department/s

  • Department of Sociology of Law

Publishing year

2024

Language

English

Pages

147-167

Publication/Series

Transformations of European Welfare States and Social Rights : Regulation, Professionals, and Citizens

Document type

Book chapter

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Topic

  • Law and Society

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISBN: 978-3-031-46637-3
  • ISBN: 978-3-031-46636-6