Patricia Hynes PhD
Professor of Social Justice
- Sheffield Institute of Law and Justice
- Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice
- Social and Economic Ï㽶ÊÓƵ Institute
Summary
Professor Hynes conducts applied research on forced migration in all its forms, particularly in relation to refugees, asylum seekers and people affected by human trafficking. Her research interests also include human rights, safeguarding children affected by trafficking, sexual and gender-based violence in humanitarian contexts and the ethics of carrying out research with refugee and migrant populations.
About
Patricia Hynes joined the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice at Ï㽶ÊÓƵ in January 2022 as a Professor of Social Justice. She is the author of Introducing Forced Migration (Routledge, 2021), co-author of Trafficked Young People: Breaking the Wall of Silence (Routledge, 2013), co-editor of New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights (Routledge, 2013), co-editor of Sociology and Human Rights (Routledge, 2011) and a monograph, The Dispersal and Social Exclusion of Asylum Seekers: Between Liminality and Belonging (Policy Press, 2011). She was also a co-author of a recent UNICEF report entitled Action to End Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation: A Review of Evidence (December 2020).
She has published internationally including a Working Paper on trust and mistrust in humanitarian settings (UNHCR, 2003) and in high impact academic journals such as the Journal of Refugee Studies, Sociology and the International Journal of Human Rights. A key theme running through her published works relates to the issue of trust and/or mistrust in humanitarian contexts.
Details of her most recent book – Introducing Forced Migration – can be found .
Professor Hynes is currently conducting research in partnership with Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) UK, looking at the need to transform systems and outcomes of care and protection for children and young people following human trafficking and/or ‘modern slavery’. Her most recently completed research project was a four-country research study which sought to understand ‘vulnerability’ to human trafficking from Albania, Viet Nam and Nigeria to the UK, in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM). Ï㽶ÊÓƵ reports from this study included a final co-authored output entitled ‘Between Two Fires’: Understanding Vulnerabilities and the Support Needs of People from Albania, Viet Nam and Nigeria who have experienced Human Trafficking into the UK (2019). Prior to this she worked on the first evaluation of a pilot of Independent Child Trafficking Advocates (ICTAs) in England (2015).
Patricia has a practitioner background with refugee populations in Southeast Asia, having conducted field research on human rights violations from Burma. She was also a Visiting Study Fellow at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford (1995-1996).
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Professor Hynes is currently conducting research in partnership with Every Child Protected Against Trafficking (ECPAT) UK, looking at following human trafficking and/or ‘modern slavery’.
Publications
Journal articles
Hynes, P. (2024). . Contemporary Social Science.
Hynes, P. (2022). . Social Sciences, 11 (6).
Hynes, P. (2017). Trust and mistrust in the lives of forcibly displaced women and children. Families, Relationships and Societies, 6 (2), 219-237.
Vearey, J., Barter, C., Hynes, P., & McGinn, T. (2017). Ï㽶ÊÓƵ ethics in practice: lessons from studies exploring interpersonal violence in different contexts. Families, Relationships and Societies, 6 (2), 273-289.
Hynes, P. (2015). No ‘Magic Bullets’: Children, Young People, Trafficking and Child Protection in the UK. International Migration, 53 (4), 62-76.
Allnock, D., Hynes, P., & Archibald, M. (2015). Self reported experiences of therapy following child sexual abuse: Messages from a retrospective survey of adult survivors. Journal of Social Work, 15 (2), 115-137.
Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D., & Waites, M. (2012). Foreword. The International Journal of Human Rights, 16 (8), 1123-1126.
Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D., & Waites, M. (2012). Editorial Foreword. Sociology, 46 (5), 787-796.
Hynes, P. (2010). Global points of ‘vulnerability’: understanding processes of the trafficking of children and young people into, within and out of the UK. The International Journal of Human Rights, 14 (6), 952-970.
Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D., & Waites, M. (2010). Sociology and human rights: confrontations, evasions and new engagements. The International Journal of Human Rights, 14 (6), 811-832.
(n.d.). Missing Persons. .
Hynes, P. (n.d.). Contemporary Compulsory Dispersal and the Absence of Space for the Restoration of Trust. Journal of Refugee Studies, 22 (1), 97-121.
Book chapters
Hynes, P., & Dottridge, M. (2024). . In Faulkner, E. (Ed.) Modern Slavery in Global Context: Human Rights, Law and Society. Bristol University Press:
Hynes, P. (2018). Gender and trafficking of children and young people into, within and out of England. In The Routledge Handbook of Gender and Violence. (pp. 208-222). Routledge:
Hynes, P. (2013). Trafficking of Children and Young People: ‘Community’ Knowledge and Understandings. In Critical Perspectives on Child Sexual Exploitation and Related Trafficking. (pp. 153-166). Palgrave Macmillan UK:
Hynes, P., & Sales, R. (2010). New Communities: Asylum Seekers and Dispersal. In Race and Ethnicity in the 21st Century. (pp. 39-61). Macmillan Education UK:
Books
Hynes, P. (2021). Introducing Forced Migration. Routledge.
Pearce, J.J., Hynes, P., & Bovarnick, S. (2013). Trafficked Young People Breaking the Wall of Silence. Routledge.
Hynes, P. (2011). The Dispersal and Social Exclusion of Asylum Seekers Between Liminality and Belonging. Policy Press.
Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D., & Waites, M. (Eds.). (n.d.). New Directions in the Sociology of Human Rights. Routledge.
Hynes, P., Lamb, M., Short, D., & Waites, M. (Eds.). (n.d.). Sociology and Human Rights: New Engagements. Routledge.
Reports
Hynes, P., Connolly, H., & Duran, L. (2022). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ: Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, University of Bedfordshire and ECPAT UK.
Hynes, P., Connolly, H., & Duran, L. (2022). . Ï㽶ÊÓƵ, University of Bedfordshire and ECPAT UK.
Hynes, P., Connolly, H., & Duran, L. (2022). Creating Stable Futures: Human Trafficking, Participation and Outcomes for Children.