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Pankhuri Agarwal, Postdoctoral Researcher, School of Management, University of Bath

What it’s really like to be ‘rescued’ from modern slavery

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When someone is in trouble, the hope is that they will be rescued. From Shakespeare to Superheroes, the story has been the same for centuries.

And now it has become the main way many people talk about tackling human exploitation, with a familiar and compelling tale of victims in chains and heroic rescuers.

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