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Human Trafficking: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts
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Human Trafficking: Social, Economic, and Political Contexts

A special issue of Social Sciences (ISSN 2076-0760). This special issue belongs to the section "Contemporary Politics and Society".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (28 February 2021) | Viewed by 3672

Special Issue Editor

Dr. Anna E. Kosloski

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School of Public Affairs, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO 80918, USA
Interests: intersections of race, class, gender, and crime; corrections and mental health; human trafficking

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Researchers have provided a range of scholarship on the crime of human trafficking that aids in the understanding of the crime, its prevalence, and contemporary challenges. Yet, more work is needed for a full range of understanding of human trafficking worldwide. For this Special Issue, we are looking for original research on human trafficking crimes that uses a macro sociological approach to examine systematic patterns of human behavior and their connections to human trafficking through social, economic, and political systems.

Hence, we invite contributions to this Special Issue from researchers exploring how social systems interact with human trafficking crimes. Examples of relevant submission topics include, but are not limited to, the following:  

  • An examination of social, political, or economic vulnerabilities and human trafficking exploitation;
  • Case studies that examine organizational successes/failures in addressing human trafficking crimes;
  • Theoretical or conceptual frameworks that explore human trafficking from a macro sociological perspective;
  • Research that puts marginalized voices at the forefront of human trafficking research.

This Special Issue is interested in research on all forms of human trafficking, including both labor trafficking and sex trafficking.

Dr. Anna E. Kosloski
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • crime
  • human trafficking
  • macro sociological approach
  • human behavior
  • marginalized voices

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“These Girls Never Give Statements”: Anti-Trafficking Interventions and “Victim-Witness Testimony” in India
by Vibhuti Ramachandran
Soc. Sci. 2022, 11(9), 405; https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci11090405 - 5 Sep 2022
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Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. Though rescuing sex workers and training them to testify [...] Read more.
Framing sex trafficking as primarily a law enforcement and criminal justice issue, the U.S. State Department funds global South NGOs to work with the Indian legal system to strengthen prosecutions of sex trafficking cases. Though rescuing sex workers and training them to testify against alleged traffickers is key to these interventions, and though rescued sex workers do sometimes testify, my ethnographic research and interviews with NGOs, legal actors, and sex workers in India revealed that this is a rare occurrence. This article explores the reasons behind this reported pattern, as well as the challenges faced by those who do testify. Through these findings, it critically examines the possibilities and limitations of the prosecutorial focus of U.S.-driven, NGO-mediated anti-trafficking interventions. It situates anti-trafficking interventions centered on “victim-witness testimony” in the Indian socio-legal context, demonstrating how prosecution is shaped by a range of factors, circumstances, and contingencies involving foreign-funded NGOs, the procedures, political economy and culture of the Indian legal system, individual legal actors’ motivations, and rescued sex workers’ complex subjectivities, experiences, choices, and perceptions of justice. It draws upon and contextualizes these findings to challenge prevalent assumptions about the victimhood of global South sex workers, about global South legal systems necessarily lacking resources and commitment, and about anti-trafficking solutions rooted in criminal justice incontrovertibly benefiting survivors of sex trafficking. Full article
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