Evaluating the Criminal Justice Approach to Human Trafficking in Taiwan

Goehrung, Ryan

doi:10.1080/23322705.2019.1636192

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“…Identification of survivors of labor trafficking is further complicated by the fact that, despite being the most prevalent form of trafficking, it receives considerably less attention and resources compared to sex trafficking, which has become a focal point of the global narrative on trafficking (Agustín 2008; Goehrung 2019). Undocumented migrants are particularly vulnerable to labor trafficking in the United States as the demand for cheap labor and the threat of detention and deportation pushes many migrants into informal and unregulated sectors, where exploitation is rampant.…”

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Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas

Goehrung

Castellano

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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Humanitarian visas provide one of few potential pathways to citizenship for foreign nationals victimized within the United States and are an important aspect of immigration law. Yet one form of humanitarian visas—T nonimmigrant status (T visa)—has received scant attention in the socio-legal studies literature. “T visas” were designed to aid survivors of human trafficking and, though the US government estimates that tens of thousands of individuals are trafficked in the United States every year, only 15 percent of the five thousand T visas available annually have been granted since the program’s inception in 2002. Why are T visas such an underutilized form of immigration relief? Drawing on twenty in-depth interviews with immigration lawyers, law enforcement personnel, and non-governmental organization service providers routinely involved in T visa applications, we find that the low rate of applications and approvals is driven by a combination of structural barriers and expansive discretion of key actors in the legal process to interpret and apply the law, which results in a narrow and often misinformed construction of victimhood. We add to the literature on the discretionary power of street-level bureaucrats to shape the law and determine how it is applied with considerable consequences for survivors of trafficking.

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Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas

Goehrung

Castellano

2023

Law Soc. Inq.

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“…Although labor trafficking research questions often focus on how to reduce labor trafficking, there is not a clear definition of labor trafficking that is accepted as a field standard. This difficulty in measuring could contribute to underreporting (Goehrung, 2021), unclear or incomparable results across studies, and a limited ability to accumulate evidence to build a broader understanding of the problem (Zhang, 2012). Terminology issues are confounded by the challenges and ethical issues inherent to studying vulnerable human subjects in challenging field conditions.…”

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Current and Future Research on Labor Trafficking in the United States

2023

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Reducing the prevalence of all forms of human trafficking, including sex trafficking, labor trafficking, and child sexual exploitation, is a national priority that puts the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in a prominent role. Given the scale, evolving "hidden" nature, and complexity of labor trafficking, combating the problem poses a significant challenge. The DHS Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) anti-human trafficking program is assessing the current state of and future needs for labor trafficking research in the United States. This effort will serve as a starting point for future social science-based S&T anti-human trafficking efforts focused on labor trafficking.As part of this effort, DHS asked the Homeland Security Operational Analysis Center (HSOAC) to identify a scientifically sound research agenda-specifically, a list of research questions and research prioritiesthat would leverage existing U.S. and international efforts to address the growing phenomenon of labor trafficking. HSOAC experts developed a research agenda through an extensive review of the literature and meetings with experts from academia and nongovernmental organizations and with stakeholders from DHS and other parts of the U.S. government (expert interviews). The research agenda identified the barriers that needed to be addressed and the questions that needed to be answered to promote operationally relevant, focused, applied social and behavioral science research that would inform decision-and policymakers and assist operational partners in mitigating the crimes of labor trafficking and human trafficking more broadly.This research was sponsored by S&T and conducted within the Infrastructure, Immigration, and Security Operations Program of the HSOAC federally funded research and development center (FFRDC).

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Der Zusammenhang zwischen ausländischer Arbeitspolitik und Menschenhandel in Taiwan

Huang¹

2023

Einwanderungspolitik Und Krise Im Regionalen Kontext

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Evaluating the Criminal Justice Approach to Human Trafficking in Taiwan

Cited by 3 publications

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Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas

Misrecognitions of Victimhood: Discretionary Power of Street-level Bureaucrats in Humanitarian Visas

Current and Future Research on Labor Trafficking in the United States

Der Zusammenhang zwischen ausländischer Arbeitspolitik und Menschenhandel in Taiwan

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