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Other Forms of Trafficking in Minors: Articulating Victim Profiles and Conceptualizing Interventions

The NEXUS Institute to Combat Human Trafficking and the International Organization for Migration, 2005.

This paper considers trafficking in minors from and within southeastern Europe (SEE), with particular attention to trafficking for labour, begging, delinquency and adoption, manifestations of trafficking that are increasingly being identified in the region. Through a discussion of these forms of trafficking and an exploration of profiles of affected victims, we will seek to identify trafficking risk. This equips us with a carefully derived picture of the contributors to trafficking, individual and social sites of vulnerability and victim’s recruitment and trafficking experiences. In so doing, this paper aims to challenge the hegemonic representations of trafficking in minors, which have primarily focused on trafficking of young adult women for sexual exploitation. In addition, this paper will consider the existing assistance framework in the SEE region and how this does (or does not) meet the needs of minors trafficked for these less-considered forms of exploitation. Answers to such queries provide potential windows of policy and programmatic opportunity. The overall objective of this paper is to move toward a more accurate understanding of the issue and, perhaps most importantly, more effective policy and programmes.

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Other Forms of Trafficking in Minors: Articulating Victim Profiles and Conceptualizing Interventions