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

• Module 6: Defining the Concept of Trafficking in Persons

• Introduction and learning outcomes

• Key issues

  • The crime of trafficking in persons
  • The international legal framework
  • The issue of consent
  • The purpose of exploitation
  • The abuse of a position of vulnerability
  • Indicators of trafficking in persons
  • The distinction between trafficking in persons and other crimes
  • Misconceptions regarding trafficking in persons

• 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  

 

Key issues

 

The sub-pages to this section provide a descriptive overview of the key issues that lecturers might want to cover with their students when teaching on this topic:

• The crime of trafficking in persons
• The international legal framework
• The issue of consent
• The purpose of exploitation
• The abuse of a position of vulnerability
• Indicators of trafficking in persons
• The distinction between trafficking in persons and other crimes
• Misconceptions regarding trafficking in persons

 

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