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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Anti-trafficking"”.
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Human Insecurity and Anti-Trafficking Policy: Representations of Trafficked Persons in Canada
Anti-trafficking discourses in Canada feature prominently in policy discussions of prostitution and sex work as well as national security and border integrity, including discussions of migration, migrant smuggling, refuge, and asylum. Yet, representations of trafficked persons have gone largely …
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Comparing Modern Day Acquisition Costs of Trafficked Individuals: Implications for Anti-Trafficking Measures
… with the goal of informing preventative anti-trafficking efforts aimed at the acquisition process of human trafficking. The main finding of this research was the existence of an initial trafficker that acts as a middleman for other traffickers. This individual acquires victims usually …
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Making a Victim: How White Slavery Discourse Shapes the UK’s Anti-trafficking Strategy
… remains central to the framing of British anti-trafficking policy today. I turn towards queer genealogy to untangle the ‘ideal victim’ from her role in white slavery narratives and its echoes in contemporary anti-trafficking policy. This is for three reasons. First, a queer critique …
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Interstate cooperation and anti-trafficking : assessing existing approaches between Nigeria and the United Kingdom
… is over a century since the abolition of transatlantic slavery, people are still sold as commodities in the form of human trafficking, to be exploited for sexual services, cheap labour, domestic servitude and other emerging forms of contemporary slavery. Human Trafficking (Hereafter, Trafficking) …
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Defining Success in Anti-Trafficking Policy: An Analysis of the U.S. State Departments Criteria for Combating Human Trafficking
Victims of human trafficking may be exploited for prostitution, sweatshop labor, domestic work, and as child soldiers for armed conflicts. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, "after drug dealing, human trafficking is tied with the illegal arms industry as the second …
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The perceptions of a civil society organization towards anti-trafficking policy development in the European Union: a case study
… of a civil society organization (CSO) engaged in anti-trafficking work in Athens, Greece in order to examine the volunteers’ perceptions of how the organization’s work relates to anti-trafficking policy development at the European Union (EU) level. The results indicated that volunteers were …
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Engendering the evaluation of anti-trafficking policy: The Vietnamese National Action Programme against trafficking in women and children 2004-2010 (THE VNAP)
Human trafficking is a prominent global problem affecting some 27 million people worldwide and has social, developmental, and human rights implications. Although in its various forms trafficking affects men, women and children, it has long been conceptualised as a women’s issue because women have …
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Catholic Sisters: Leaders in the Fight Against Human Trafficking. A Phenomenological Study
Human trafficking, despite being illegal in every country, remains a global problem. Even in the face of a global pandemic, human trafficking continues to be a dynamic, complex issue. Leaders in the fight against trafficking are faced with a multilayered issue that thrives in a complex environment. …
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Challenging Notions of the Ideal Victim: Identifying and Stereotyping Human Trafficking in the Midwest
Human trafficking, defined as commercial sex or labor induced by force, fraud, or coercion, has become a global concern, with various stakeholders taking different political and ideological stances in their opposition to this exploitation. The US Midwest is no outlier in these anti-trafficking …
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Carving a New Notch in the Bible Belt: Rescuing the Women of Kentucky
<p>In recent years, the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation has become a major focus on the local, national, and global level. This is despite research, which has identified labor trafficking to be a significantly larger issue across the globe. The purpose of this research is to …
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Human trafficking in Ireland – reconstituting the rights identity of trafficked persons
… critically analyses state responses to human trafficking in Ireland and is positioned conceptually and theoretically within the branch of critical antitrafficking studies (Lindquist, 2013: 322). This approach asserts that, not only is anti-trafficking a field of inquiry, it is also a normative …
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Algorithmic detectives against child trafficking : data, entrapment, and the new global policing network
My dissertation explores how "anti-trafficking" has emerged as a global network of humanitarian professionals, law enforcement, and software companies collaborating to address the issue of child exploitation and trafficking online. I argue that the anti-trafficking network consolidates expertise …
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AWARE: Analyzing the Impact of an Anti-Human Trafficking Advocacy Curriculum using Sixth Grade Students in Colorado
<p>Human trafficking is an international problem that penetrates every society on the globe. Trafficking in children for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation, forced labor, and domestic servitude occurs in every state of the United States. Education is key in preventing human trafficking …
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Sex Trafficking and State Intervention: Conflicts and Contradictions during the 2012 London Olympics
This thesis focuses on the British human trafficking prevention policies adopted for the 2012 London Olympics using mixed methods including participation-observation, qualitative interviews, theoretical analysis and policy evaluation. I was invited to observe the Human Trafficking Network and …
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Collaborative Experiences of Community Leaders in Eradicating Human Trafficking: A Community of Practice
… of community leaders in eradicating human trafficking through the framework of a Community of Practice (CoP). As human trafficking remains a pervasive global issue, effective strategies necessitate the engagement of diverse stakeholders, including law enforcement, social services, …
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The Modern Slavery Act 2015: world leading or a missed opportunity to enhance victim protection?
… approach in developing its latest national anti-trafficking legislation - the Modern Slavery Act (MSA) 2015. Offering an original contribution to the knowledge base, it considers whether the UK‘s national legal framework is sufficiently equipped to protect women who are trafficked for the …
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Rethinking Child Trafficking in Nepal: Victimhood, Agency and Beyond
… analyse the national responses to child trafficking in Nepal. This has been approached by exploring: (1) the changing dimensions of child trafficking in Nepal and the reasons for the perpetuation of trafficking vulnerabilities; (2) the development of legislative approaches to child …
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Strengthening the enforcement of policy to combat human trafficking: a network approach for improving collaboration
Modern-day slavery, now termed human trafficking, is a crime that has remerged in the modern day. It is a transnational crime through which a humans vulnerability is exploited through coercive means. In recent decades the issue has attracted policy and legislative attention from governments, …
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Saving our Sisters: Critical inquiry into sex trafficking discourses and interventions in the Philippines
This research critiques the Philippine anti-trafficking sector’s conflation of sex work with victimhood and shows that this conflation is inconsistent with the lived realities of many sex workers. It examines the politics of knowledge production in the anti-trafficking sector and posits that the …
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Assumptions and Reality: The securitisation of human trafficking in Southern Africa
… war on terrorism' are the most obvious examples. Trafficking in persons has also been elevated to a security issue. The trend of 'securitising' non-traditional security threats has not stirred much controversy as yet. This dissertation will question why and how the issue of human trafficking has …
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