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Trafficking – a Demand led Problem? A Multi-Country Pilot Study

Document number
1011
Date
2002
Title
Trafficking – a Demand led Problem? A Multi-Country Pilot Study
Author/publisher
Bridget Anderson, Julia O’Connell Davidson, Save the Children
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Asia; Africa; Americas; Europe; Middle East, Prostitution, Sex work, Sexual exploitation, Clients, Demand, Sexual exploitation, Labour exploitation, Labour exploitation, Domestic labour,
Summary
The review of research and debate is structured as follows. The first section addresses definitional, political and methodological difficulties associated with research and debate on “trafficking”. Section 2 considers general issues raised by attempts to analyse “the demand side” of trafficking. Sections 3 and 4 examine existing evidence on the relationship between particular forms of demand and the phenomenon of trafficking in two sectors: commercial sex and domestic work. The final section concludes with a brief discussion of the policy dilemmas posed by the idea of “the demand side of trafficking” and identifies some key areas in which further work is required.
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