Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia

✍ Scribed by Laura Dean

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2020
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 288
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Offering a perceptive study of the urgent human rights issue of trafficking in persons, this important book analyses the development and effectiveness of public policies across Eurasia. Drawing on multi-method research in the region, Laura A. Dean explores the factors behind anti-trafficking strategies and the role of governments and activists in combating labour and sexual exploitation. She examines the intersection of global strategies and state-by-state approaches, and uses the diffusion of innovation framework to cast new light on the impetus and implementation of different policy typologies. Identifying the strengths, weaknesses, and best practices in human trafficking policies around Eurasia, Dean’s book will appeal to a wide range of students, scholars, practitioners, and policy makers.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Diffusing Human Trafficking Policy in Eurasia
Copyright information
Dedication
Table of contents
List of maps, figures, and tables
List of acronyms
The scope of human trafficking policies in Eurasia
Note on transliterations, place names, and permissions
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Diffusing the politics of human trafficking from Europe to Asia
The scope and definition of human trafficking
Setting the stage for human trafficking policy adoption
The politics of human trafficking
Internal and external human trafficking constraints
Research methods
Outline of book
Notes
1 Contrasting policy approaches to human trafficking in Eurasia
Human trafficking policy typology
Criminal code
National action plan
National law
Decree, regulation, or decision
Miscellaneous policy documents
Human trafficking policy development in Eurasia
Varying definitions and sentencing guidelines in Eurasia
Divergent policy themes in Eurasia
Stereotypical sex trafficking victims
The emergence of anti-trafficking institutions
Conclusion
Note
2 Diffusing human trafficking policy adoption
Diffusion of innovation framework in the international context
Ukraine: the early innovator
Latvia: the status quo
Russia: the holdout
Cross-case comparison
Internal determinants
External influence
Conclusion
Note
3 Tracing the development of anti-trafficking institutions
Formal and informal anti-trafficking institutionalisation
Precarious Ukrainian anti-trafficking institutions
National coordinator
Interagency council
Police units
Rehabilitation centre
Victim of trafficking status
Resilient Latvian anti-trafficking institutions
National coordinator
Anti-trafficking working group
Police units
Trafficking shelter for victims
Victim certification process
Breakdown of Russian anti-trafficking institutions
National coordinator
Anti-trafficking working group
Police units
Shelter
Victim service provisions
Cross-case comparison of anti-trafficking institutions
Conclusion
Note
4 Linkages among actors in anti-trafficking networks
Human trafficking networks
Bypassing roadblocks in the Ukrainian anti-trafficking network
Efficient message sending in the Latvian anti-trafficking network
Fragmentation in the Russian anti-trafficking network
Comparison across anti-trafficking networks
Conclusion
5 Uneven implementation of human trafficking policies
Policy implementation: going beyond descriptive statistics
Uneven implementation in Ukraine
Personal factors in Latvia
Implementation collapse in Russia
Cross-case comparison
Internal determinants
External pressures
Conclusion
6 Empirical comparisons of human trafficking policy across Eurasia
Operationalising and measuring diffusion across 15 countries
Dependent variable: policy adoption
Dependent variable: policy implementation
Independent variables: internal determinants
Independent variables: external pressures
Independent variables: differences in policy implementation model
Internal determinants and external pressures on policy adoption
Internal determinants
External pressure
Influence of internal determinants on policy implementation
Overlapping themes in the mixed methods analysis of Eurasia
Conclusions
Note
Conclusion
Diffusing human trafficking policy: synopsis of main findings
Effectiveness of human trafficking policy
Political developments in Eurasia
The future of human trafficking policy
Fieldwork and research design
Research ethics
Case selection
Elite interviews
Participant observation and archival research
Content analysis
Network analysis
Cross-national time series analysis
Internal determinants
External pressures
Data limitations
Main questions
Follow-up questions
Prompts
Methodological appendix: Peeling back the research process
Appendix 1
Semi-structured interview questions1
Main questions
Follow- up questions
Prompts
Appendix 2: Table A2: Human trafficking policies in Eurasia
Appendix 3: Table A3: Typology of human trafficking policies in Eurasia
Appendix 4: Table A4: Code book for content analysis of laws and policies
Appendix 5: Table A5: Code book for content analysis of interviews
Appendix 6: Table A6: Quantitative variable coding and sources
Appendix 7: Table A7: Scores for Human Trafficking Policy Index
Fieldwork and research design
Research ethics
Case selection
Elite interviews
Participant observation and archival research
Content analysis
Network analysis
Cross-national time series analysis
Internal determinants
External pressures
Data limitations
Main questions
Follow-up questions
Prompts
Bibliography
Laws referenced
Cited interviews
Ukraine
Latvia
Russia
Index
Back Cover