Descripción del proyecto
Un análisis más detallado de los traficantes que están detrás de la trata de seres humanos
Los Gobiernos nacionales gastan millones en luchar contra la trata de seres humanos y ayudar a las víctimas. Sin embargo, la investigación sobre los traficantes es limitada. El equipo del proyecto TRAFFICKER, financiado por las Acciones Marie Skłodowska-Curie, aplicará el concepto analítico de «circuitos sociales» para investigar etnográficamente las operaciones empresariales y las relaciones sociales de los traficantes de seres humanos. El proyecto se basa en un trabajo de campo etnográfico sobre los países de origen y destino de los traficantes. Así, TRAFFICKER se centrará en los encarcelados por trata de seres humanos en la ciudad de Galati, en el este de Rumanía, y en las cárceles de Lisboa (Portugal). El proyecto explicará cómo los traficantes llevan a cabo la trata de seres humanos, cómo las redes delictivas nacionales hacen que su negocio sea transnacional, las relaciones de parentesco y el papel de las relaciones sociales, y sus vidas durante y después del encarcelamiento.
Objetivo
During the past two decades, millions of euros have been spent by national governments and international organisations on combatting human trafficking and on offering assistance to victims of trafficking. However, we know surprisingly little about the people who facilitate, manage and orchestrate human trafficking: the traffickers. But who are the human traffickers, if we look beyond the stereotypes? The TRAFFICKER project will answer this question and fill this knowledge-lacuna, by ethnographically investigating the business operations and social relationships of human traffickers, via the analytical concept of ‘social circuits’.
The project is based on ethnographic fieldwork in two sites, in respectively one country of origin and one destination country of the traffickers: (a) the city of Galati in Eastern Romania, and (b) in prisons in Lisbon, Portugal, among inmates that are incarcerated for human trafficking. The TRAFFICKER project builds on my extensive research and fieldwork experience within the fields of transnational crime, third-party facilitation/pimping and sex work. This background is essential to the project, since it provides access to the necessary local networks, as well as providing the needed methodological knowledge and ethical awareness.
The project illuminates:
1) How human trafficking is carried out by traffickers on the ground, and thus how national criminal networks make their illegal business transnational.
2) The ways in which the kinships relations and social relationships of human traffickers hinder or enable their transnational criminal livelihood.
3) The lives of human traffickers both during and after imprisonment and their navigation of legal and illegal work domains.
This knowledge will not only be beneficial for the academic research community on transnational, organised crime, but also for stakeholders such as NGOs, policy makers, international organisations, governments and law enforcement, as well as for the wider public.
Ámbito científico
Programa(s)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Régimen de financiación
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinador
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