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This website is dedicated to collating and disseminating research and resources to understand how faith shapes approaches to anti-trafficking, particularly outputs from the three-year ESRC research project at the Universities of Sheffield and Leeds 2017-2020 'Understanding the roles of FBOs in anti-trafficking' and our ongoing academic, impact and engagement work.
What, if anything, is distinctive about the support offered by faith-based organisations (FBOs)? How is this support experienced by trafficked persons?
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Latest news
1 April 2025
Faith, bordering and Modern Slavery
Faith, bordering and Modern Slavery
Our article addressing bordering in UK anti-modern slavery is part of a Special Issue 'Contested Geographies of Trafficking Borders' in the journal Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space.
24 January 2020
Report launch: faith responses to modern slavery
Report launch: faith responses to modern slavery
The Faith and anti-trafficking initial findings report was launched at our conference in Sheffield today.
13 May 2021
Distinctive or professionalised?
Distinctive or professionalised?
Our article investigating the roles of faith based organisations in anti-trafficking has been published in the journal Sociology.
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Project highlight
This was a collaboration between members of the research team, photographer Jeremy Adams and anti-trafficking organisations.
The photographs from Unhidden in Plain Sight aim to counter images used by anti-trafficking organisations which often re-victimise the people they are looking to support.
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