2012
DOI: 10.1080/13545701.2012.680978
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Understanding Human Trafficking Origin: A Cross-Country Empirical Analysis

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“…Consequently, their rights are similar but different (Qurán 7 Muslim dominated origin countries had low human trafficking outflows indicating that "female mobility is discouraged in Islamic countries which have presumably more conservative attitudes towards women" (Cho 2012: 18). In a similar vein, the results by Rao and Presenti (2012) show that human trafficking is not more likely in countries with greater gender equality.…”
Section: Religion and Hierarchies Between Sexessupporting
confidence: 66%
“…Consequently, their rights are similar but different (Qurán 7 Muslim dominated origin countries had low human trafficking outflows indicating that "female mobility is discouraged in Islamic countries which have presumably more conservative attitudes towards women" (Cho 2012: 18). In a similar vein, the results by Rao and Presenti (2012) show that human trafficking is not more likely in countries with greater gender equality.…”
Section: Religion and Hierarchies Between Sexessupporting
confidence: 66%
“…The literature has broadly categorized these factors as supply side, or "push" factors, demand side or "pull" factors and as facilitating factors. In regards to the push or supply factors, past research has found countries that suffer from poverty, crime, corruption, unstable institutions, and/or are plagued with conflict and upheaval tend to be the greatest source of human trafficking victims (Agbu, 2003;Bales, 2007;Cho, 2015;Rao & Presenti, 2012;Surtees, 2008). These countries are often referred to as "origin" countries as individuals seek to migrate out of these areas in search of a better life and in the process fall victim to human traffickers.…”
Section: Overview Of Human Traffickingmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Rao and Presenti (2012) nicely connect this to the immigration literature and thereby reach a more nuanced hypothesis. In the migration literature, the relationship between poverty and migration is assumed (and often found to be) negative.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%