Descrizione del progetto
Uno sguardo più da vicino ai trafficanti che si celano dietro la tratta di esseri umani
I governi nazionali spendono milioni per combattere la tratta di esseri umani e assistere le vittime. Tuttavia, la ricerca sui trafficanti è limitata. Il progetto TRAFFICKER, finanziato dal programma MSCA, applicherà il concetto analitico di «circuiti sociali» per indagare etnograficamente le operazioni commerciali e le relazioni sociali dei trafficanti di esseri umani. Il progetto si basa su un lavoro etnografico sul campo nei Paesi di origine e di destinazione dei trafficanti. TRAFFICKER si concentrerà quindi sulla città di Galati, nella Romania orientale, e sulle carceri di Lisbona, in Portogallo, che contano detenuti accusati di traffico di esseri umani. Il progetto spiegherà come i trafficanti conducono il traffico di esseri umani, come le reti criminali nazionali rendono transnazionali i loro affari, come sono le relazioni di parentela e il ruolo delle relazioni sociali, nonché la loro vita durante e dopo la detenzione.
Obiettivo
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.
Campo scientifico
Programma(i)
- HORIZON.1.2 - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Main Programme
Meccanismo di finanziamento
HORIZON-AG-UN - HORIZON Unit GrantCoordinatore
1165 Kobenhavn
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