@article{fdi:010082061,
  title = {{C}aptives at large : on the political economy of human containment in the {S}ahara},
  author = {{B}rachet, {J}ulien and {S}cheele, {J}.},
  editor = {},
  language = {{ENG}},
  abstract = {{A} closer look at recent reports of "modern slavery" in the {S}ahara, particularly the exploitation of sub-{S}aharan migrants in contemporary southern {L}ibya, shows that they speak of other forms of captivity, such as debt bondage, forced prison labor, and hostage taking for ransom. {S}uch forms of exploitation have an equally long history in the region but are more obviously enmeshed with contemporary phenomena: repressive migration policies, state incarceration, and the worldwide ranking of nationalities. {T}his article seeks to understand them for what they are, using fieldwork and historical examples. {U}nderstanding shifts the blame for the migrants' plight from "local culture" to the international political economy and grants migrants a degree of agency that blanket condemnations of slavery often deny. {I}t also opens up more general questions about links between labor, mobility, and captivity; the relationship between state and nonstate systems of political control, their boundaries and overlaps; and the different ways value is accorded to individual lives-or actively created, negotiated, or denied-in the {S}ahara and beyond.},
  keywords = {slavery ; migrants ; hostages ; prison labor ; debt ; {L}ibya ; {C}had ; {N}iger ; {A}lgeria ; {LIBYE} ; {TCHAD} ; {NIGER} ; {ALGERIE} ; {SAHARA}},
  booktitle = {},
  journal = {{P}olitics and {S}ociety},
  volume = {[{E}arly access]},
  numero = {},
  pages = {[24 ]},
  ISSN = {0032-3292},
  year = {2021},
  DOI = {10.1177/00323292211014373},
  URL = {https://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010082061},
}