From the mid-2000s, Senegal has had an anti-trafficking law to prosecute emigration attempts and activities that relate to facilitating passage out of the country. Implemented following Senegal’s ratification of the Palermo Protocols, this law ushered in a new legal practice of making some forms of movement illegal, or at the very least, suspicious. These activities, …

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