An Epidemiological Perspective on Labor Trafficking

Gallo, Michael A.; Konrad, Renata; Thinyane, Hannah

doi:10.1080/23322705.2020.1815474

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“…Thus, by forcing their victims to commit illegal acts, traffickers can use social attribution of constructing the image of an individual as a criminal rather than someone whom they exploited. Furthermore, those who exploit others in labor trafficking can also see themselves as "helping" their victims and emphasize their dire circumstances even prior to being trafficked (Gallo et al, 2020).…”

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Social psychology of human trafficking.

Dryjanska

2024

Psychological Perspectives on Human Trafficking: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Intervention.

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This chapter considers the insight that social psychology brings to human trafficking research and practice. It discusses the relevance of the social selfconcept, cognitive processes, and biases when perceiving persons, particularly human trafficking survivors and perpetrators. The chapter also explains how stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination can be especially devastating to human trafficking survivors, keeping them in bondage and providing justifications for inhumane treatment and refusal of dignity. It is worth noting some other relevant domains of social psychology would be helpful to explore in relation to human trafficking, for example, helping behavior and altruism.Social psychology has been defined as "a branch of psychology dedicated to the study of how people think about, influence, and relate to each other" (Sutton & Douglas, 2020, p. 3) or, in other words, "the scientific study of the feelings, thoughts, and behaviors of individuals in social situations" (Gilovich et al., 2019, p. 5). These definitions certainly delineate a very broad field, likely to touch on multiple aspects of individual lives. The core areas of interest to social psychologists include the social dimension of the selfconcept, social cognition (or how people perceive and think about others 6 SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING

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Section: Actor-observer Biasmentioning

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Social psychology of human trafficking.

Dryjanska

2024

Psychological Perspectives on Human Trafficking: Theory, Research, Prevention, and Intervention.

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“…2023.1243413 Frontiers in Public Health 02 frontiersin.org 64,718 victims with high confidence for 2007-2020 (4), and an estimated 199,000 incidents of sexual exploitation of minors may occur each year (5,6). The vast array of physical, sexual, psychological and social problems faced by survivors of human trafficking make it an important public health concern (7,8) and healthcare providers are often on the operational frontlines when interacting with patients who are being trafficked (9,10). However, even in clinical contexts, these patients may not make their experience known for reasons that include, but are not limited to, language or cultural barriers, fear of criminal repercussions, fear of the trafficker, or distrust of the healthcare provider (11,12), limiting our ability to understand their characteristics and medical needs.…”

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Victims of human trafficking and exploitation in the healthcare system: a retrospective study using a large multi-state dataset and ICD-10 codes

Gutfraind,

Yagci Sokat,

Muscioni

et al. 2023

Front. Public Health

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Trafficking and exploitation for sex or labor affects millions of persons worldwide. To improve healthcare for these patients, in late 2018 new ICD-10 medical diagnosis codes were implemented in the US. These 13 codes include diagnosis of adult and child sexual exploitation, adult and child labor exploitation, and history of exploitation. Here we report on a database search of a large US health insurer that contained approximately 47.1 million patients and 0.9 million provider organizations, not limited to large medical systems. We reported on any diagnosis with the new codes between 2018-09-01 and 2022-09-01. The dataset was found to contain 5,262 instances of the ICD-10 codes. Regression analysis of the codes found a 5.8% increase in the uptake of these codes per year, representing a decline relative to 6.7% annual increase in the data. The codes were used by 1,810 different providers (0.19% of total) for 2,793 patients. Of the patients, 1,248 were recently trafficked, while the remainder had a personal history of exploitation. Of the recent cases, 86% experienced sexual exploitation, 14% labor exploitation and 0.8% both types. These patients were predominantly female (83%) with a median age of 20 (interquartile range: 15–35). The patients were characterized by persistently high prevalence of mental health conditions (including anxiety: 21%, post-traumatic stress disorder: 20%, major depression: 18%), sexually-transmitted infections, and high utilization of the emergency department (ED). The patients’ first report of trafficking occurred most often outside of a hospital or emergency setting (55%), primarily during office and psychiatric visits.

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“…Although precise figures are elusive, the Global Estimates of Modern Slavery Report estimates that HT impacts 25M individuals and annually generates more than 150 billion USD in illicit gains globally [ 3 , 4 ]. HT is broadly classified as labor and sex trafficking; while all trafficking features exploitation, the actions and means by which HT occurs may differ [ 5 ]. Labor trafficking takes place in a wide variety of sectors, including the agriculture, domestic work, construction, fishing, food service, and beauty industries.…”

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Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

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Human trafficking is a widespread and compound social, economic, and human rights issue occurring in every region of the world. While there have been an increasing number of anti-human trafficking studies from the Operations Research and Analytics domains in recent years, no systematic review of this literature currently exists. We fill this gap by providing a systematic literature review that identifies and classifies the body of Operations Research and Analytics research related to the anti-human trafficking domain, thereby illustrating the collective impact of the field to date. We classify 142 studies to identify current trends in methodologies, theoretical approaches, data sources, trafficking contexts, target regions, victim-survivor demographics, and focus within the well-established 4Ps principles. Using these findings, we discuss the extent to which the current literature aligns with the global demographics of human trafficking and identify existing research gaps to propose an agenda for Operations Research and Analytics researchers.

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An Epidemiological Perspective on Labor Trafficking

Cited by 6 publications

References 77 publications

Social psychology of human trafficking.

Social psychology of human trafficking.

Victims of human trafficking and exploitation in the healthcare system: a retrospective study using a large multi-state dataset and ICD-10 codes

Operations research and analytics to combat human trafficking: A systematic review of academic literature

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