Sex trafficking in Cyprus: An in-depth study of policy, services, and social work involvement

Cox, Carole

doi:10.1177/0020872816681657

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“…Several scholars have interviewed shelter workers in various countries (Asia: Hacker et al 2015;Europe: Clemente 2022;Semprebon et al 2021;Cox 2018;Hoyle et al 2011; the US: Gerassi and Nichols 2018). Fewer have managed to interview beneficiaries and explore their experience of such programmes (Lockyer 2022;Asia: Cordisco Tsai et al 2021;Hacker et al 2015;the US: Koegler et al 2021;Europe: Clemente 2022;Semprebon 2023).…”

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Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes

Semprebon

2024

Social Sciences

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Anti-trafficking programmes in Italy have been implemented for more than two decades. Yet, little empirical evidence is available regarding their functioning. This paper draws on 56 semi-structured interviews carried out in the period of 2019–2021 with practitioners and beneficiaries of the N.A.Ve anti-trafficking programme. The interviews focused on practitioners’ experience working with Nigerian women and on Nigerian women’s experiences of the programme upon completion. By building on critical anti-trafficking studies and the autonomy of migration perspective, this contribution looks at the relationship between practitioners and Nigerian women admitted to the programme by addressing the following questions: what is the experience of practitioners and beneficiaries in the N.A.Ve programme? To what extent is the structural violence of the counter-trafficking apparatus reproduced in the relational dynamics between practitioners, particularly Case Managers, and beneficiaries? How do beneficiaries cope with such violence? I argue that the Case Managers’ approach builds on “stratified layers of institutional knowledge” and that this concept is useful to highlight how their knowledge derives both from the counter-trafficking apparatus and their social work background. Furthermore, I present evidence that such an approach reproduces structural violence through processes of “conditional inclusion”. Nigerian women denounced this violence but also seized the relational capital grown from rapport, calling for more engagement with people rather than programme objectives.

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Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes

Semprebon

2024

Social Sciences

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“…6. Sex trafficking entails exploitation and coercion of the victims (see Crawford 2017;Cox 2017). There is evidence that sex trafficking causes a wide range of mental health issues in survivors (Levine 2017).…”

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10 A Spinozistic Approach to Relational Autonomy: The Case of Prostitution

Sangiacomo¹

2019

Spinoza and Relational Autonomy

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And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of.(W. Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, Act I, scene ii, lines 69-72) Autonomy QualifiedHow do the relationships I entertain with others determine my autonomy? According to the traditional account of autonomy that can be traced back to Kant (Schneewind 1998), such a question would not be well formulated. In that view, autonomy should be conceived as a freedom of self-rule. The extent to which an agent cultivates and improves her autonomy determines the kind of relationships she will be able to entertain with others -and not vice versa. However, in the last decades, feminist philosophers (e.g. Friedman 2003; Oshana 2006) have charged the traditional account of autonomy as being too individualistic. They contend that autonomy cannot be understood without taking into serious consideration how social relationships and social bonds affect an agent's autonomy. The notion of 'relational autonomy' has been used as an 'umbrella term' to investigate the social nature of autonomy (Mackenzie and Stoljar 2000: 3-33). From this relational point of view, our relationships with others are necessary conditions for our autonomy. In today's debate, autonomy can be understood as relational in two senses. On the one hand, 'causal' approaches maintain that the agent's autonomy is causally affected by her relationships and by the socio-cultural environment in which she operates. On the other hand, constitutive approaches hold that social relationships and social embeddedness are necessary conditions of what autonomy is and of how it should be understood. 1 In this chapter, I contend that Spinoza's moral philosophy not only develops an account of (constitutive) relational autonomy, 2 but it also introduces a further distinction between a quantitative dimension of autonomy (i.e. the capacity of an agent to be more or less autonomous) and a qualitative dimension

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Using Preventive, Protection, Prosecution and Partnership Framework to Explore the Successes and Constraints of Social Work to Address Sex Trafficking in Edo, Nigeria

Agwu,

Levy,

Okoye

2023

The British Journal of Social Work

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Social work features in human trafficking discourses as a remedial approach, but the profession’s potentials in Nigeria have not been fully realised. Thus, our research seeks to understand how social work has fared across the Prevention, Protection, Prosecution and Partnership (4Ps) of anti-human trafficking in Edo (a prime source destination for sex trafficking in Nigeria), and what can be done to scale up the presence and efficacy of social work. Qualitative research was conducted with twenty-three participants comprising qualified social workers, allied social work professionals and operational staff of ten anti-human trafficking agencies. Data were sourced using in-depth interviews, deductively coded and analysed based on the 4Ps framework. An important finding was the recognition of the social work profession by most anti-human trafficking agencies, as they employed qualified social work staff or outsourced social work roles to allied professions. Across the 4Ps, Prevention and Protection fared better, unlike Prosecution and Partnership. We provide insights on how to scale up all 4Ps using a social work lens. This research has the potential to strengthen the social work component of anti-human trafficking and presents an in-road to conduct more social work analysis in anti-human trafficking and other fields.

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Sex trafficking in Cyprus: An in-depth study of policy, services, and social work involvement

Cited by 4 publications

References 13 publications

Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes

Protecting Protection Programmes or Engaging with People? Conditional Inclusion and Evolving Relational Dynamics in Anti-Trafficking Programmes

10 A Spinozistic Approach to Relational Autonomy: The Case of Prostitution

Using Preventive, Protection, Prosecution and Partnership Framework to Explore the Successes and Constraints of Social Work to Address Sex Trafficking in Edo, Nigeria

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