Journal
ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
Volume 653, Issue 1, Pages 6-24Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/0002716214521562
Keywords
sex trafficking; labor trafficking; microlevel research; evidence-based policy
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This article evaluates four popular claims regarding human trafficking's international magnitude, trends, and seriousness relative to other illicit global activities. I find that the claims are neither evidence-based nor verifiable. Second, an argument is made for carefully conducted microlevel research on trafficking. Several such studies are described, including the contributions to this volume of The Annals. I argue for microlevel research, which has advantages over grand, macrolevel claimsadvantages that are both quantitative (i.e., identifying the magnitude of trafficking within a measurable context) and qualitative (i.e., documenting complexities in lived experiences)and is better suited to formulating contextually appropriate policy and enforcement responses.
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