Fuelling global production networks with slave labour?: Migrant sugar cane workers in the Brazilian ethanol GPN

► I examine the case of slave labour among migrant Brazilian sugar cane workers. ► I use the GPN framework to place unfree labour within production networks. ► I show how labour is de-valued within a GPN through processes of racialisation. ► I show how beyond institutional context, the state exercises governance within GPNs. ► I show how efforts to combat slave labour work through GPN power dynamics.