Exploring Human Rights in the Context of Enforcement-Based Anti-trafficking in Persons Responses

Kaye, Julie; Millar, Hayli; O’Doherty, Tamara

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“…There is a movement that advocates for a human rights based approach that includes GAATW, NGOs, academics, and international bodies such as IOM, WHO, OHCHR, and most recently, is laid out in the intergovernmentally negotiated and agreed 2018 Global Compact for Migration (Kaye et al, 2019;IOM, 2018;GAATW, 2007GAATW, , 2014Gallagher and Karlebach, 2011). This approach focuses on the rights of migrants to move and work safely and emphasises the need to recognise and challenge global factors driving exploitation.…”

Section: Human Trafficking As a Human Rights Issuementioning

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Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

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This research uses narrative criminology to investigate the way the problem of human trafficking is narrated in New Zealand and international settings. It draws on accounts from professionals who are responsible for defining and responding to human trafficking, and reports, policy, and other guiding documents. The main issue driving this research is the contested nature of human trafficking. Human trafficking is a crime type that has been highly politicised resulting in shifts and changes to the way the problem of trafficking has been approached over the past 20 years, with differing trends coming to the fore and dominating trafficking practices at different times. The internationally dominant approaches which emphasise prostitution, harsh criminal responses, and border security have come under criticism for having harmful impacts for migrant workers. This research aims to understand how human trafficking is defined, what discourses are drawn on, and how international narratives may be influencing local responses with the overall aim of identifying new and less problematic ways of conceptualising human trafficking and responding to migrant exploitation. This thesis finds that different ways of narrating human trafficking are constitutive of different trafficking realities. Narratives determine the shape the problem takes, who is involved, what the causes and solutions are, who responds, and who are classed as victims and perpetrators. This research concludes that as narratives structure reality and action, in order to change how we deal with certain problems, the way the problem is narrated must also change. The findings of this thesis reflect current challenges in the wider international anti-trafficking field of how to avoid positioning western states and systems as outside of the problem of trafficking, issues with broadening definitions of victimhood, and questions of the role of international versus local bodies in defining problems involving migration and crime. As well as reflecting these current challenges, the findings from this research provide insights for moving forwards by proposing an alternative narrative. This counter narrative is created through drawing together components of narratives identified in this research. It avoids the issues of western exceptionalism, narrow forms of victimhood, and a focus on sex trafficking, and provides a different method for conceptualising migration, exploitation, and harm.

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Section: Human Trafficking As a Human Rights Issuementioning

confidence: 99%

Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

Cornforth-Camden¹

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Exploring Human Rights in the Context of Enforcement-Based Anti-trafficking in Persons Responses

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Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

Narratives of human trafficking: Defining policy, practice and positioning in a contested field

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