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Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation in Germany

Document number
1472
Date
2005
Title
Trafficking for Labour and Sexual Exploitation in Germany
Author/publisher
Norbert Cyrus, International Labour Office (ILO)
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Migrant rights; Migration management; Comprehensive approach to migration; Migration policy; Irregular Migration, Feminization of migration, Economic migration, Labour migration, Free movement, Undocumented migrants; Undocumented labour; Women's rights; Women; Control and regulation of prostitution, Protection, Punishable forms of prostitution, Prostitution; Sex work; Unionisation of sex workers; Clients, Abolitionism; New Abolitionism; Prohibitionism; Regulationism,
Summary
In its research since that time, the Special Action Programme on Forced Labour (SAP-FL) has given much attention to whatwe call the forced labour outcomes of trafficking and irregular migration. It has launched research projects in origin and destination countries of traffickedvictims, examining the causes of such trafficking, the main geographicalareas of origin, the recruitment mechanisms, and the trafficking routes. Butit has been equally concerned to analyse the demand factors in some keydestination countries. These studies have been carried out, or are in the process of being carriedout, in a number of developed as well as transition countries including France,Germany, Hungary, Japan, Turkey, the Russian Federation, Albania, Moldova,Romania, Ukraine and Tajikistan. In Germany, a research project was initiatedfollowing a meeting of trade unions that took place in Geneva in February2003. The research involved extensive interviews with government representatives,social partners, NGOs and victims.
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