Slavery in the 21st century  

"So I argued that if we were serious about ending modern slavery in Britain we needed to campaign for open borders unpopular though it may be although possibly no more unpopular than attempts to end transatlantic slavery. The Independent reported that resistance from slaveholders was finally softened by a payout of £20m in 1833, a staggering 40 per cent of the UK treasury's annual budget, which equates to around £16.5bn in today’s terms. Open borders represents a huge assault on the status quo but it does not make much of an appearance in Davidson’s book apart from one little sentence tucked away on p159 which argues for the extension of citizenship rights to all those already here – a kind of ‘amnesty’ which is fine as far as it goes but hardly a longterm solution."--Rahila Gupta reviewing[1] Modern Slavery: The Margins of Freedom (2015) Julia O'Connell Davidson