Studying Human Trafficking in Thailand Increases EPAS Competencies and Compels Action at Home

Willis, Tasha Y.; Wick, David; Bykowski, Carla; Doran, Joanna K.; Li, Hoi Yi; Tran, Alisia G. T. T.

doi:10.1080/10437797.2019.1661901

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“…Peer-reviewed studies involving Latinx students in Latin America, Spain, or the African Diaspora are rare, and have more often focused on ethnic identity development (Teranishi, 2007;Teranishi, & Hannigan, 2008), language development (Shedivy, 2004), or in one case, social work professional identity development (Willis, Wick, Bykowski, Doran, Li, & Tran, 2019). One dissertation study featured primarily Mexican American students studying in Latin America or Spain (Guerrero, 2006) while another dissertation (Raymondi, 2005) examines Dominican American students in Senegal.…”

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Assets-Based Learning Abroad: First-Generation Latinx College Students Leveraging and Increasing Community Cultural Wealth in Costa Rica

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This qualitative study counters deficit narratives about first generation Latinx students by exploring multi ple forms of community cultural wealth (CCW; Yosso, 2005) that 25 students leveraged and increased during service activities and homestays in Costa Rica. Through longitudinal data and with CCW as a conceptual framework, three key themes emerged First, s tudents were able to leverage their linguistic and familial capital to connect quickly and meaningfully with locals. Additionally, students drew upon their linguistic, familial, aspirational, and resistant capital while abroad to deepen their engagement. Finally, student interaction with their forms of CCW appeared to deepen their bicultural identities, strengthen their resistance to injustice, and instill a strong desire to inspire other Latinx students to pursue international education. Implications fo r practice include an integrated approach to recognizing and rewarding students’ CCW related capital in the advising, application and preparation processes. Implications underscore the importance of using strengths based pedagogies in the design of educat ion abroad programs.

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Assets-Based Learning Abroad: First-Generation Latinx College Students Leveraging and Increasing Community Cultural Wealth in Costa Rica

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“…The tremendous human trafficking in Thailand in the last period has given the government serious attention to the case and Thailand has its own way of avoiding an increase in human trafficking. The increase of Thai economy can be seen from the development of its tourism industry sector which is the main industry in Thailand (Greenbaum & Bodrick, 2017;Willis, Wick, Bykowski, doran, Li, & Tran, 2021).…”

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Human Trafficking in Thailand in Perspective of Human Rights Law

Sihotang

Wiriya²

2021

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Trafficking in human beings is increasingly due to the greatest gain of the perpetrators. Human trafficking is a global humanitarian problem. With the involvement of many countries, both as a country of origin, destination and transit country, making this problem more complex. The complexity of the problems is increasing as the neighbors and organized transnational crime networks are organized. Thailand is one of the transit countries, sources, and destinations for international human trafficking. These conditions led to the Government of Thailand began to realize the urgency of the dangers of human trafficking. This problem is increasingly complex because human trafficking is related to child and female prostitution.

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“…Many organizations operate independently and have Christian mission agendas (Padunchewit 2010). Furthermore, the self-identified good deeds of these NGOs should be taken with a pinch of salt because a primary point in generating data is to convince financial supporters in the United States to continue funding (see, e.g., Willis et al 2021). This often means offering testimonials of "rescued" women on websites who attest to being victims of human trafficking.…”

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Thailand’s Sex Entertainment: Alienated Labor and the Construction of Intimacy

Lemberger

Waters

2022

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Promising research from Thailand already highlights women in the sexual entertainment industry as being active participants in both intimate relationships and commercial transactions simultaneously. Notably, they are neither victims nor alienated laborers, as some activist narratives assert. Women working in Thailand’s sex entertainment industry consistently adapt working cultures to modernity’s demand to reduce sex to a commercial transaction while often seeking emotional engagement. One result is that new forms of intimacy emerged, taking on new cultural meanings. The profoundly felt need to care for and take care of someone else [dulae (Thai: ดูแล)], seen as a form of “intimacy”, is, in fact, deeply rooted in the Thai social context. We reframe the literature about sex work in Thailand by assuming that intimacy is key to understanding how “sex work” arose and is sustained there. Focusing on intimacy distances research about sex work away from western assumptions about the commodification and alienation of labor. This gives a more holistic understanding of the complexity of overlapping and intersecting dimensions of the work women perform in sex entertainment. “Intimacy” ties together the issues of money, labor, and a need to care for someone and be taken care of. This thread links women with their customers, families, and themselves.

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Studying Human Trafficking in Thailand Increases EPAS Competencies and Compels Action at Home

Cited by 3 publications

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Assets-Based Learning Abroad: First-Generation Latinx College Students Leveraging and Increasing Community Cultural Wealth in Costa Rica

Assets-Based Learning Abroad: First-Generation Latinx College Students Leveraging and Increasing Community Cultural Wealth in Costa Rica

Human Trafficking in Thailand in Perspective of Human Rights Law

Thailand’s Sex Entertainment: Alienated Labor and the Construction of Intimacy

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