Impact Of Trafficking Research Articles

Psychosocial Characteristics of Human Trafficking: A Systematic Review

The phenomenon of human trafficking is one of contemporary issue being seriously concerned. Its characteristics are repressive to human exploitation destination (individual or group)as well as a direct implication on human rights violations. Victim of trafficking has characteristics social typical for trading. The purpose of systematic review was to identify the psychosocial characteristics of human trafficking victims. Systematic search on March 12, 2019, in the data of Proquest, Springer Link, Scopus by key word Psychosocial Characteristics of Victims of Human Trafficking during 2013 -2018. The results found 13 appropriate journal that included into inclusion criteria, they were peer-reviewed journals in English, all forms of exploitation, the samples were aged >15 years old. The results based on a). Demographic data Age (adults/children), gender, marital status, education level, place of residence (urban/rural), regional trade (national/international), religion, type of work, economic conditions before trading. b) Variable of exposures (smuggling status, the process of departure, detention in camps, forgery/fraud documents, employment status, obscure country of work, type of work). c) Method of recruitment using social media (Backpage, Facebook, dating website) and invited directly by recruiters. d) Type of exploitation (household slavery, exploitation of labor, financial exploitation, sexual exploitation). e) Characteristics of the exposure (restriction of movement, drug use, sexual abuse, psychological abuse, restriction/confinement, physical violence, the background to the incident trafficking, race, home life, relationships with parents/carers/ family members, economic opportunities, the recruiters-victim relationship, trust in strangers, lack of social support), f).Psychosocial variables as the impact of trafficking (the abuse of alcohol/drugs, involved in crime and a fugitive/police targets). Required a prevention effort to group or individual who had the same characteristics, thus, they did not fall to the incidence of trafficking.

The profile less considered: The Trafficking of Men in South Africa

ABSTRACT Human trafficking can broadly be described as the illegal trade of human beings mainly for the purposes of commercial sexual exploitation or forced labour. Trafficking is most commonly associated across the world with the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation, to some extent with the trafficking of children for sexual exploitation, and to a lesser extent with trafficking for labour exploitation. While the trafficking of women and girls for sexual exploitation has been explored at length, the trafficking of men and boys for both sexual and labour exploitation has received less attention. Consequently, victim assistance focuses almost exclusively on women and children who have been trafficked for sexual exploitation. Reports of male victims are rare as men have traditionally been overlooked as potential victims of trafficking. Generally, very little is known about the trafficking of men. The trafficking of men in South Africa, or as a regional phenomenon in southern Africa; the extent to which it exists, the exploitative purposes for which its victims are trafficked, suffers from a similar lack of attention. Human trafficking violates several human rights of the trafficked and the impact of trafficking on individuals is severe. One of the stated objectives of the United Nations Trafficking Protocol is the protection of victims of trafficking. Sustained research on the trafficking of men and boys in South Africa is required to shed more light on the forms of exploitation men and boys are subject to. This will inform policy and practice and allow for effective protection and assistance for a hitherto neglected population.