Human Trafficking: The Misconceptions A Review of the literature surrounding human trafficking, specifically what it says or doesn't say about male victims.

Human Trafficking: The Misconceptions

A Review of the literature surrounding human trafficking, specifically what it says or doesn't say about male victims.

Danae ZimmerTopic: Human Trafficking in scholarly literatureFocus: Male victims' role in scholarly literatureTarget: ScholarsMethod: Political Economy & In-depth InterviewsGoal: To bring to light the absence of male victim's in scholarly literature about human trafficking, through the absence of literature about labor trafficking and the repercussions of that.

Literature ReviewGendered Discussions of Human TraffickingExclusion of menFocus on sex trafficking --> womenStatistical Reality of Men in Human TraffickingLack of labor traffickingNo agreement on what constitutes human traffickingThe number of men actually involved in trafficking (sex and labor) as victims/ survivors. Political EconomyRelationship between the economy and trafficking.

How sweatshops and migrant farm workers play into itAre these considered to be forms of trafficking?In-depth InterviewsFlorida Farmworkers Association Jeannie Economos- Pesticide Safety andEnvironmental Health Project Coordinator

Florida Coalition Against Human TraffickingGiselle Rodriguez- State Outreach Coordinator

Conclusion/ DiscussionIt appears that the lack of a decisive definition about what constitutes human trafficking (sweatshops/ migrant farm work) as well as the one-sided discussion that typically only involves sex trafficking keep men uninvolved except as perpetrators.