Deported and Dispossessed: Human Trafficking and the State of Israel: Between Economic Struggle and Systemic Dispossession
- Document number
- 1816
- Date
- 2007
- Title
- Deported and Dispossessed: Human Trafficking and the State of Israel: Between Economic Struggle and Systemic Dispossession
- Author/publisher
- Hotline for Migrant Workers
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Assistance, Residence permit, Reintegration, Social assistance, Rehabilitation, Reflection period, Repatriation; Return; Redress, Protection, Social inclusion; Residence permit; Prevention, Awareness Raising, Media, Information Campaigns, Empowerment, Advocacy, Civil society, NGO, Human Rights approach, Activism, Education, Training;
- Summary
- ''...In Chapter I, we discuss the economic motivation of all the elements involved in human trafficking: the victims, the traffickers and the respective countries. In Chapter II we examine how Israel derives considerable profits from human trafficking, both directly and indirectly. In Chapter III we show how Israel's state coffers profit from the struggle against human trafficking – principally through the confiscation of property and fines. Chapter IV examines the various means available to the victims to obtain compensation for the harm caused them in general, and for reimbursement of the monies taken from them in particular, and this includes compensation through criminal procedure, civil claims against the traffickers and a special fund that is to be established to finance the struggle against human trafficking and the rehabilitation of its victims. Chapter V discusses international law pertaining to compensation for victims of human trafficking, and describes compensation schemes that operate in various countries. In conclusion we discuss ways to use the funds of the economic struggle against human trafficking, with particular emphasis on the rights and needs of the victims...''
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