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Trafficking victims in SEE – what we know, what we need to know

Trafficking victims in SEE – what we know, what we need to know. Rebecca Surtees NEXUS Institute to Combat Human Trafficking October 2007. Southeastern Europe. Victims of trafficking from SEE. Victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, from and/or assisted in SEE

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Trafficking victims in SEE – what we know, what we need to know

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  1. Trafficking victims in SEE – what we know, what we need to know Rebecca Surtees NEXUS Institute to Combat Human Trafficking October 2007

  2. Southeastern Europe...

  3. Victims of trafficking from SEE... • Victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation, from and/or assisted in SEE • Second Annual Report of Victims of Trafficking in SEE (2005) Regional Clearing Point & IOM • Sampling frame of RCP study: • VoTs, identified and assisted in SEE, primarily from SEE • 1329 VoTs in 2003, 1227 in 2004, 6255 from 2000 to 2004 • 85% in 2003 and 2004 exploited sexually (single or multiple form) • Primarily adult women but also female minors and some males (minor and adult) • Listening to victims: experiences of identification, return and assistance in SEE (2007) NEXUS & ICMPD.

  4. Victims of trafficking from SEE... Some characteristics of trafficked women... • Personal background • Recruitment process • Transportation process • Exploitation experiences

  5. What victim profiles do not tell us... • Limitations of the sampling frame... • Victim profiles drawn from cases of identified victims, not representative of all trafficked persons • Access to information from victims impacted by different factors • Access through service providers who may limit the type of victims we have contact with

  6. Othervictimprofiles... • Trafficked persons not identified and/or assisted – are these victims different from assisted VoTs? • Leaving the past behind: why some trafficking victims decline assistance, NEXUS (Vienna) and Fafo (Oslo) • Sampling frame: • fieldwork in Albania, Moldova and Serbia in 2006 • 42 women and girls who were trafficking victims, 10 street prostitutes • 90 representatives of various service providers, police and other actors who had experience in offering assistance. • respondents trafficked to many different countries including internally • asked about experiences with assistance, both why they had declined either all or parts of what they had been offered, and what their experiences with assistance were.

  7. Whodeclinesassistance... • To decline assistance is not a simple “yes” or “no”; the decision making process is complicated, with different factors at play • might accept some types of assistance and not others • might decline initially but seek out some assistance later • might accept from some organisations but not others • might accept in one country but not another

  8. Whodeclinesassistance... • Three main categories of declining: • personal circumstances that led to declining • reasons linked to the system itself, in terms of how assistance was organized • reasons related to identity and how one views oneself, both in terms of being a trafficking victim and as a victim in general

  9. Whodeclinesassistance... • Some characteristics associated with victims of trafficking may be more representative of assisted VoTs than of VoTs generally. • There are trafficked persons who do not fit as well and as easily into the victim paradigm presented in these profiles. • Difference between assisted and unassisted victims has implications both for research and policy.

  10. Implications... • Need for proper evaluations of trafficking assistance efforts, what does and does not work. • Must look at effect on assisted victims, but also: • Who is not assisted and why? • What happens to them in the longer term? • Differences between assisted and unassisted the victims? • Do unassisted victims need different types of assistance? • Risk that assistance system caters to the needs of one specific type of trafficking victim • Serious implications for trafficked persons when we do not meet the needs of less considered profile of trafficking victims.

  11. Contact details and recent NEXUS reports... For additional information, please contact NEXUS Institute: • Rebecca Surtees, Researcher: rsurtees@nexusinstitute.net • Stephen Warnath, Director: swarnath@nexusinstitute.net Some recent NEXUS reports, available upon request: • Leaving the past behind: why trafficking victims decline assistance, www.fafo.no/ais/topics/trafficking1-english.htm • Listening to victims: experiences of identification, return and assistance in SEE • Examining the intersection between domestic violence and trafficking in persons • Labour trafficking in SE Europe: developing prevention & assistance programmes. • 50 Ways Local Government Officials Can Confront Human Trafficking in Their Communities. • Child Trafficking: Different Forms of Trafficking & Alternative Interventions • Traffickers & Trafficking in SEE: Considering the Demand Side of Human Trafficking

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