Interventions and Measurement to Combat Human Trafficking

Session Submission Type: Pre-arranged Panel

Abstract

Anti-trafficking programs have been on the rise around the world, taking different routes to combat trafficking or reduce vulnerability to trafficking situations. This panel assembles the latest development on efforts to combat human trafficking activities from different parts of the world or developing methods for improved baseline / prevalnece measurement. Despite widespread knowledge on human trafficking issues, empirical knwoledge on what works in combatting human trafficking remains limited. Many challenges remain, ranging from a lack of agreements in common baseline/prevalence measurement strategies to a shortage of rigorous studies on anti-trafficking programs. Papers included in this panel highligh some of the latest efforts to tackle these challenges.

Subtopic

• Topic 2: Types of Offending / Human Trafficking

Chair

• Sheldon X Zhang, University of Massachusetts Lowell

Individual Presentations

• Developing domestic economic opportunities to reduce trafficking risks in overseas migration: A randomized controlled trial in Tanzania - Meredith Dank, New York University; Stephen Abeyta, New York University

• Reducing human trafficking in irregular migration through alternative livelihoods in a remote Kenyan county: A randomized controlled-cluster trial - Sheldon X Zhang, University of Massachusetts Lowell; Audrey Beck, San Diego State University

• The Prevalence Innovation Forum: Prevalence Research in Human Trafficking - David Okech, University of Georgia, School of Social Work