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Legal Narratives, Human Trafficking and Slavery in Australia
Author(s) -
Burn Jennifer
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
history compass
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.121
H-Index - 1
ISSN - 1478-0542
DOI - 10.1111/hic3.12368
Subject(s) - narrative , context (archaeology) , human trafficking , criminology , human rights , history , psychiatry , medicine , psychology , political science , law , art , archaeology , literature
In this paper, I will explore the Australian context of human trafficking and slavery by reviewing narratives drawn from two separate coronial inquiries into the deaths of two people who were never legally recognised as being trafficked into Australia. Puongtong Simaplee died in Villawood Detention Centre in Sydney on 26 September 2001,[Note 1. Inquest into the death of Puongtong Simaplee (24 April, ...] and Manjit Singh died on 26 August 2011 in the intensive care unit of a Sydney hospital from complications of surgery.[Note 2. Inquest into the death of Manjit Singh (17 August, ...]