A transnational feminist policy analysis of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act

Abstract

A transnational feminist policy analysis of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act: Noyori‐Corbett C., Moxley D.P. A transnational feminist policy analysis of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act Although originally the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) sought to prosecute traffickers, protect victims, and prevent trafficking, the most essential aim of the act involving prevention, especially in victims’ countries of origin, has not been dominant in combating trafficking. The authors used a transnational feminist framework of policy analysis to reveal the TVPA's limitations in addressing the diminished status of poor women in the developing world. Using five key questions emanating from transnational feminism, the authors illuminate the extent to which the act is unresponsive to the economic realities that make women in developing countries vulnerable to human trafficking. Based on their analysis, the authors offer considerations for the future re‐authorization of the Act, emphasizing a shift from a paradigm involving the criminalization of victims to one embodying prevention.

Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas

“…Survivors of trafficking have good reasons for this mistrust. There is a long history of these individuals being misidentified as criminals and labelled and detained as sex workers or undocumented immigrants rather than being seen as survivors of trafficking (Haynes 2004;Chacón 2010;Noyori-Corbett and Moxley 2017). Multiple studies in the United States have found that even law enforcement officers who have received training on the subject still struggle to accurately identify survivors of trafficking (Farrell and Pfeffer 2014;Mapp et al 2016).…”