Blog Entry #1: Hanni Stoklosa, Bangkok, Thailand, Post-Natural Disaster Human Trafficking Prevention in Thailand
The United Nations defines trafficking as the recruitment,
transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the
threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, or
deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the
giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person
having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.
Here I am training our Thai research assistants |
The International Labor Organization and the U.S. Department of
State have long recognized Thailand as a hub of trafficking in southeast Asia. Economic
disparity in the region helps to drive significant migration into Thailand from
its neighbors, presenting traffickers opportunities to exploit those desperate
for jobs. Trafficking is a serious risk
that is heightened when people are displaced, families separated, children
orphaned, and livelihoods destroyed. Specifically, natural and man-made
disasters may increase the risk of human trafficking by increasing their
vulnerability by these means.
Map of Thai flood water progression from disaster response organization |
I am here in Thailand to explore the relationship between the devastating 2011 Thai flood and human trafficking, thereby informing
prevention and protection efforts against trafficking in future disaster
scenarios.
Canal community affected by Thai flood |
Through a
partnership with Harvard Humanitarian Initiative, the Asian
Disaster Preparedness
Center in Bangkok ,
and the Institute for Population and Social Research (IPSR) at Mahidol University
in Thailand I am leading a
team of researchers in a qualitative research study on Post-Natural Disaster
Human Trafficking Prevention in Thailand .
Through rigorous semi-structured interviews with established disaster response
and anti-human trafficking NGOs in Thailand , we will explore
relationships between a natural disaster and human trafficking.
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