• E4J University Module Series: Trafficking in Persons & Smuggling of Migrants

• Module 7: Prevention of Trafficking in Persons

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • Root causes
  • Effective prevention strategies
  • • Supply side strategies: concerns and shortcomings
    • Demand side strategies: discouraging or prosecuting demand
    • Role of the media
    • Safe migration channels
    • Crime prevention strategies
  • Monitoring, evaluating and reporting on the effectiveness of prevention strategies

• Exercises

• Possible class structure

• Core reading

• Advanced reading

• Other resources

• Student assessment

• Additional teaching tools

 

Published in March 2019 

 

 

  This module is a resource for lecturers  

 

Advanced reading

 

The following readings are recommended for students interested in exploring the topics of this Module in more detail, and for lecturers teaching the Module:

Materials with this icon can be found in the E4J Library of Resources.

• Bélanger, Danièle (2014). Labor Migration and Trafficking among Vietnamese Migrants in Asia. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. vol. 653, pp. 87-106.
• Chuang, Janie (1998). Redirecting the Debate over Trafficking in Women: Definitions, Paradigms, and Contexts. Harvard Human Rights Journal, vol. 11, pp. 65-107.
• Dunne, Joseph L. (2012). Hijacked: How Efforts to Redefine the International Definition of Human Trafficking Threaten Its Purpose. Willamette Law Review, vol. 48, pp.403-521.
• Ezell, Laura (2016). Human trafficking in multinational supply chains: a corporate director's fiduciary duty to monitor and eliminate human trafficking violations. Vanderbilt Law Review, vol. 69, pp. 499-544.
• Fouladvand, Shahrzad (2018). Decentering the prosecution-oriented approach: Tackling both supply and demand in the struggle against human trafficking. International Journal of Law, Crime and Justice, vol. 52, pp. 129-143.
• Gallagher, Anne (2015). Exploitation in Migration: Unacceptable but Inevitable. Journal of International Affairs, vol. 68, pp. 56-74.
• Houston-Kolnik, Jaclyn, Soibatian, Christina and Shattell, Mona (2017). Advocates' Experiences With Media and the Impact of Media on Human Trafficking Advocacy. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, vol. 32, pp. 1-25.
• Jones, Samuel V. (2010).  The Invisible Man: The Conscious Neglect of Men and Boys in the War on Human Trafficking. Seattle Journal for Social Justice, vol. 9, pp.1143-1188.
• Kara, Sidharth (2011). Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy, Harvard International Review, vol. 33, pp. 66-71.
• Kelemen, Katalin and Johansson, Märta (2013). Still Neglecting the Demand that Fuels Human Trafficking: A Study Comparing the Criminal Laws and Practice of Five European States on Human Trafficking, Purchasing Sex from Trafficked Adults and from Minors. European Journal of Crime, Criminal Law and Criminal Justice. vol. 21, pp. 247-289.
• Korsell, Lars (2018). Regulating Organized Crime. The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science. vol. 679, pp. 158-177.
• Koser, Khalid (2010). Dimensions and Dynamics of Irregular Migration. Population, Space, and Place. vol. 16, pp. 181-193.
• McCarthy, Lauren (2018). Life after Trafficking in Azerbaijan: Reintegration experiences of survivors. Anti-Trafficking Review, vol. 10, pp. 105-122.
• Niemi, Johanna and Aaltonen, Jussi (2017). Tackling Trafficking by Targeting Sex Buyers: Can It Work? Violence against Women, vol. 23, pp. 1228-1248.
• Pajnik, Mojca (2010). Media Framing of Trafficking. International Feminist Journal of Politics, vol. 12, pp. 45-64.
• Planitzer, Julia (2016). Trafficking in Human Beings for the Purpose of Labour Exploitation: Can Obligatory Reporting by Corporations Prevent Trafficking? Netherlands Quarterly of Human Rights, vol. 34, pp. 318-339.
• Sheldon-Sherman, Jennifer A. L. (2012). The Missing "P": Prosecution, Prevention, Protection, and Partnership in the Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Penn State Law Review, vol. 117 443-501.
• Studnicka, Andrea C. S. (2010). Corruption and Human Trafficking in Brazil: Findings from a Multi-Modal Approach. European Journal of Criminology, vol. 7, pp. 29-43.
• Tyldum, Guri (2010). Limitations in Research on Human Trafficking. International Migration,vol. 48, pp. 1-13
• Wheaton, Elizabeth, Schauer, Edward and Galli, Thomas (2010). Economics of Human Trafficking. International Migration, vol. 48, pp. 114-141.

 

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