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From:Demokratizatsiya (Vol. 9, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedEvery year, millions of men, women, and children are trafficked worldwide into conditions amounting to slavery. Among them, many thousands are young women and girls lured, abducted, or sold into forced prostitution and...
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From:Best Practices in Mental Health (Vol. 16, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedChild and youth human trafficking is one of the most harmful forms of child abuse in existence. Child welfare agencies are the primary organizations tasked with identification, assessment, and intervention for these...
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From:Harvard International Review (Vol. 33, Issue 2)On New Year's Day 2011, I flew to Lagos to research human trafficking in Nigeria. Towards the end of my trip, I visited a small town called Badagry, about a two-hour drive west of Lagos. In 1502, Portuguese colonists...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 21, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe erection and proliferation of baby factories constitute one of the major injustices directed at women especially teenage girls in southeastern Nigeria. Under this arrangement, women are incarcerated for the purpose...
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From:Trends & Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice (Issue 483) Peer-ReviewedForeword | Once a trafficked person has exited an exploitative situation, they may require support to return and reintegrate into their chosen community. Using data contained in the International Organization for...
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From:Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies (Vol. 15, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT The Hague Convention on Protection of Children and Co-operation in Respect of Intercountry Adoption ("the Hague Convention") was developed to enable adoptions to proceed according to the "the best interests...
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From:Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare (Vol. 34, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedGlobalization demands that social workers embrace more than just local and national perspectives; they must adopt an international viewpoint as well. A negative aspect of globalization that deserves more attention is...
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From:Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law (Vol. 41, Issue 5)ABSTRACT A comprehensive approach to combating trafficking in human beings requires precise knowledge of the scope of the problem and constant evaluation of government responses. Reporting on the status of human...
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From:OR/MS Today (Vol. 44, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWorldwide, an increasing amount of public attention is being directed toward the problem of human trafficking. The media are more frequently covering trafficking, anti-trafficking activism has risen, and most countries...
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From:American Journal of International Law (Vol. 108, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedOver the last fifteen years, the problem of human trafficking has become a focus of government and advocacy agendas worldwide. Increasingly referred to as "modern-day slavery," the phenomenon has prompted rapid...
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From:Perceptions (Vol. 18, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSince the disintegration of the Soviet Union, human trafficking has emerged as one of the major trans-national phenomena affecting Turkey. Although trafficking in human beings is widely acknowledged as a serious crime...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 39, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThis article explores and analyses the judicial treatment of victim consent in cases of trafficking in persons in Australia. Using available case law, this article examines how victim consent has been dealt with in the...
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From:Melbourne University Law Review (Vol. 36, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed[The mandatory minimum terms of imprisonment for people smuggling have attracted substantial judicial criticism in recent years. A series of legislative amendments has broadened their application; decisions of...
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From:Monash University Law Review (Vol. 39, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn PJ v The Queen, the Victorian Court of Appeal clarified the fault elements of the offence of 'aggravated people smuggling' in the Migration Act 1958 (Cth). The consequence of this case is that the prosecution is now...
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From:British Journal of Community Justice (Vol. 12, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedThis article addresses the lack of women's voices in the trafficking discourse by presenting women's perspectives on policy support. Undertaken as part of doctoral study at the University of Hull, the research asked...
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From:Duke Journal of Gender Law & Policy (Vol. 27, Issue 1)INTRODUCTION Child sex tourism, child pornography, and human trafficking have prompted a strong bipartisan Congressional response. Since the 1990s, Congress has enacted and repeatedly expanded laws prohibiting sexual...
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From:Social and Economic Studies (Vol. 65, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedABSTRACT We analyze the expansion of the anti-trafficking discourse in Puerto Rico and its application to Dominican immigrants. Based on interviews with social service providers, we argue that Dominican women are...
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From:Migration World MagazinePeer-ReviewedAlongside the campaign against would-be immigrant terrorists, federal, state and local authorities are waging war against those who prey on immigrants. In December, the INS announced a 39-count indictment of 32 officers...
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From:Journal of International Women's Studies (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis article looks at an ancient tradition of India called devadasis, which literally means "servant of God". It requires girls as young as four years to be 'married' or 'dedicated' to a temple deity. Once a revered...
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From:Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (Vol. 112, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedWhen federal authorities investigate sex trafficking, three realities are consistently present. First, most sex trafficking investigations begin in response to an individual affirmatively bringing evidence to...