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McGaha, Johnny E. and Amanda Evans, ―Where are the Victims? The Credibility Gap in Human
Trafficking Research‖ in 4 Intercultural Human Rights Law Review 239 (2009).
McGaha and Evans assess the current statistical shortcomings of a vast quantity of
scholarly data on human trafficking. They argue that a failure to explain the methods
used to estimate the number of human trafficking victims worldwide by a few frequently
cited publications and databases has led to the dissemination of information that can
easily be undermined given new studies. If scholars and activists wish to make human
trafficking a top policy issue, they need to provide reliable figures. Otherwise, lawmakers
will begin to feel that the credibility of this research has made legislation and funding to
combat trafficking less reasonable.
Psychological Health & Vulnerable Groups
Atzet, Ian, ―Post-Crisis Actions to Avoid International Child Trafficking‖ in Journal of Law &
Family Studies 12, 499, 2010.
This article examines the case of Haiti as a post-disaster zone which created special
vulnerability for children. Kidnapping gangs known as restaveks found an easy job of
obtaining and selling children from the streets. In contrast, the New Life Children‘s
Refuge (NLCR), a Christian charity ostensibly dedicated to protecting and providing for
children, attempted to rescue street children and relocate them to a safe location in the
Dominican Republic. Haitian officials at the border prevented members of the NLCR
from leaving with the children, as border controllers suspected the situation to resemble
abduction more than adoption (many of the children had living relatives and lacked
documentation). Atzet recommends that, in order to control demand for adoption after a
crisis and to protect vulnerable children who are made even more so by a large-scale
crisis: bodies that govern adoption within the home country should be allowed to regain
functionality before moving forward with or rushing adoptions; prosecutions of postcrisis
traffickers should be enhanced; and putting a moratorium on adoptions.
Bhabha, Jacqueline, ed. Children Without a State (Cambridge: MIT Press, 2011).
In this edited volume, the phenomenon of statelessness is examined with a particular eye
towards the vulnerability of children. The articles cover three overarching legal statuses
of statelessness affecting children: legal (when someone has never acquired a nationality
due to citizenship documentation unavailability or prevailing political issues); de facto
(when a child is illegally present in a state); and effective (when otherwise legal citizens
cannot prove their identities due to lack of adequate proof). Issues such as birth
registration, illegal migration, human trafficking, itinerant and migrant populations,
minority and marginalized groups, access to basic goods such as education and health
care, and historical statelessness are explored in this seminal contribution to the field of
migration and children‘s rights.
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