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Trafficked young people: breaking the wall of silence

  • Patricia Hynes
    ,
  • Jenny Pearce
    ,
  • Silvie Bovarnick
    ,
  • Patricia Hynes
Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

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Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 5 - Gender Equality
    SDG 5 Gender Equality
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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  • SDG 10 - Reduced Inequalities
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Abstract

Human trafficking constitutes one of the most serious human rights violations of our time. However, many social work practitioners still have a poor and incomplete understanding of the experiences of children and young people who have been trafficked. In Trafficked Young People, the authors call for a more sophisticated, informed and better developed understanding of the range of issues facing trafficked young people. In the first work of its kind to combine an up-to-date overview of the current policy context with related theoretical concerns and practitioner experiences, Pearce, Hynes & Bovarnick demonstrate how the trafficking of children and young people should be regarded as a child protection, rather than an immigration concern. Drawing on focus group and interview research with 72 practitioners and covering the cases of 37 individuals, Trafficked Young People explores the way child care practitioners identify, understand and work with the problems faced by people who have been trafficked. The book looks at how practitioners interpret and use definitions of trafficking in their day to day work; at their experiences of exposing the needs of trafficked children and young people and at their efforts to find appropriate resources to meet these needs.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

  • Published - 11/02/2013

Publication status

Published - 11/02/2013

Publisher

Routledge, United States, United Kingdom

ISBN (Print)

9780415617543

External Publication IDs

  • handle.net: 10547/293692

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