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Title
An asset-based approach to understanding and modeling vulnerability to and resilience against acquisition for the purposes of human trafficking victimization
Description
An asset-based approach to vulnerability, as presented in Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? and World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, provides a possible theoretical framework for understanding vulnerability to human trafficking. Case studies, field studies and narratives of human trafficking provide evidence that the assets of victims of trafficking play a significant role in human trafficking. This appears to be true both with regard to how traffickers exploit victim assets and with regard to how successful human trafficking prevention efforts are implemented. By exploring and further establishing this connection, I hope to provide evidence that a model of human trafficking acquisition incorporating elements of victim assets and the assets of communities deserves field-testing. Such field-testing will hopefully confirm the deep connection between assets and human trafficking activity and establish the necessary connections anti-trafficking activists will need to create a predictive version of the model with regard to individual vulnerability to human trafficking. Lastly, I argue that, provided the connection between human trafficking vulnerability and victim asset levels holds, an asset-based approach provides a rhetorical framework to resist policies that compromise asset levels of particularly vulnerable populations.
Date Created
2015
Contributors
- Fees, Kyle Elliot (Author)
- Stancliff, Michael (Thesis advisor)
- Behl, Natasha (Committee member)
- Murphy Erfani, Julie (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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Resource Type
Extent
viii, 140 pages : illustrations
Language
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
Primary Member of
Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.29681
Statement of Responsibility
by Kyle Elliot Fees
Description Source
Viewed on April 20, 2020
Level of coding
full
Note
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2015
Note type
thesis
Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-139)
Note type
bibliography
Field of study: Sociology
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- 2015-06-01 08:05:03
System Modified
- 2021-08-30 01:30:05
- 2 years 7 months ago
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