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Boyond borders: Exploring links between trafficking and migration

Document number
2497
Date
2010
Title
Boyond borders: Exploring links between trafficking and migration
Author/publisher
GAATW
Availability
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Document type(s)
Research/Study/Analysis,
Keywords
Migration, trafficking,
Summary
The publication is one out of four working papers published by GAATW. All four working papers cover the following areas:

• Basic concepts in the field
• Examples of the links between trafficking and other issues in the
work of civil society actors, governments, and other stakeholders
• The beneficial and harmful effects of these simultaneous factors on
working migrant women
• The importance of using a human rights-based approach
• How groups from different sectors can work together in new ways
• Policy recommendations
(Source: www.gaatw.org)

More specifically, this working paper focuses on migration and how this concept is intertwined with the concept of trafficking. The paper is devided into 6 sections. The first part looks into definitions and concepts that touch on both trafficking and migration. The secons section look at how anti trafficking issues and migration affect each other in practice from a legislative and political perspective. The third section look at women in trafficking and migration. The fourth section focuses on how civil society advocates can work together, and the fifth section looks into how the two topics can be connected by using a human rights approach. the sixth section is dedicated to recommenations and suggestions.
 
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