The Making of “The Trafficking Problem”

Vanwesenbeeck, Ine

doi:10.1007/s10508-018-1367-4

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“…The current research challenges neo-abolitionist epistemologies that frame all sex work as trafficking and as violence against (cisgender) women (Chuang, 2009;Vanwesenbeeck, 2019). Notably, neoabolitionism influenced negotiations surrounding the 2000 Palermo Protocol, which left the concept of "exploitation" nebulously defined yet central to framing trafficking situations, while at the same time conflating prostitution with sexual exploitation at the top of a hierarchy of harms (Uy, 2011).…”

Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 94%

Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States

Fehrenbacher

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Hoefinger

et al. 2020

Journal of Human Trafficking

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Transgender (hereafter: trans) people are rarely included in human trafficking research. This empirical study presents narratives of trans individuals who report experiences consistent with the Palermo Protocol's definition of trafficking, access to anti-trafficking services for trans individuals, and attitudes of antitrafficking advocates and law enforcement toward trans people. Ethnographic fieldwork conducted for 30 months between March 2017 and August 2019 in Los Angeles and New York City included in-depth interviews with sex workers and trafficked persons (n = 50), of whom 26 were trans, and key informants (n = 17) from law enforcement and social services. Most trans participants who reported exploitation did not self-identify as victims of trafficking nor were they identified by police or anti-trafficking organizations as victims. Law enforcement gatekeeping was identified by anti-trafficking advocates as a barrier to meeting the needs of trans clients because they were viewed as "less exploitable" than cisgender women. Discriminatory law enforcement practices resulted in the exclusion and hyper-criminalization of trans migrants and people of color who were profiled not only by gender, but also race/ethnicity and immigration status.

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Section: Theoretical Frameworkmentioning

confidence: 94%

Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States

Fehrenbacher

Musto

Hoefinger

et al. 2020

Journal of Human Trafficking

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“…El paradigma pro derechos define la trata sexual como un mito o cruzada moral, cuya retórica es refutada por el minúsculo número de víctimas identificadas (Vanwesenbeeck, 2019;Da Silva, Blanchette, & Bento, 2013, p. 401). Por el contrario, el neoabolicionismo asevera que este problema se ha extendido exponencialmente debido a un incremento de la demanda (Schwartz, 2004;Bales & Soodalter, 2009;Shelley, 2010).…”

Section: La Trata Sexual: ¿Pandemia O Mito?unclassified

trata en México desde la perspectiva de los proxenetas

Palacios

2021

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Este artículo analiza el discurso de los proxenetas sobre el problema de la trata con fines de explotación sexual en México. Se utilizó una metodología cualitativa y fueron entrevistados noventa proxenetas (33 padrotes y 57 madrotas). Esta investigación concluye que, según los proxenetas mexicanos, la trata en México es un fenómeno creciente, que se nutre tanto del reclutamiento engañoso o forzado de jóvenes centroamericanas como de la desaparición forzada de jóvenes mexicanas, a quienes se explota en lugares distantes de donde fueron abducidas, para atender a una clientela de elevados recursos económicos.

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“…Partly because of the Americanization of international sexual and reproductive health politics (see Altman, 2001;Corrêa et al, 2008;Vanwesenbeeck, 2019), opposition against CSE is also and sometimes increasingly strong in many conservative countries in the Global South. UNESCO Bangkok (2012) found only 6 of 28 countries in the Asia Pacific region to even discuss sexuality education in any detail in their national policies at the time.…”

Section: Fighting Oppositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Comprehensive Sexuality Education

Vanwesenbeeck¹

2020

Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Global Public Health

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Comprehensive sexuality education (CSE) is increasingly accepted as the most preferred way of structurally enhancing young peoples’ sexual and reproductive well-being. A historical development can be seen from “conventional,” health-based programs to empowerment-directed, rights-based approaches. Notably the latter have an enormous potential to enable young people to develop accurate and age-appropriate sexual knowledge, attitudes, skills, intentions, and behaviors that contribute to safe, healthy, positive, and gender-equitable relationships. There is ample evidence of program effectiveness, provided basic principles are adhered to in terms of content (e.g., adoption of a broad curriculum, including gender and rights as core elements) and delivery (e.g., learner centeredness). Additional and crucial levers of success are appropriate teacher training, the availability of sexual health services and supplies, and an altogether enabling (school, cultural, and political) context. CSE’s potential extends far beyond individual sexual health outcomes toward, for instance, school social climates and countries’ socioeconomic development. CSE is gaining worldwide political commitment, but a huge gap remains between political frameworks and actual implementation. For CSE to reach scale and its full potential, multicomponent approaches are called for that also address social, ideological, and infrastructural barriers on international, national, and local levels. CSE is a work never done. Current unfinished business comprises, among others, fighting persevering opposition, advancing equitable international cooperation, and realizing ongoing innovation in specific content, delivery, and research-methodological areas.

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The Making of “The Trafficking Problem”

Cited by 13 publications

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Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States

Transgender People and Human Trafficking: Intersectional Exclusion of Transgender Migrants and People of Color from Anti-trafficking Protection in the United States

trata en México desde la perspectiva de los proxenetas

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