Human Trafficking Awareness for Rehabilitation Professionals: Difference between revisions

This page contains information about Human Trafficking, including sexual assault and abuse. There are links to videos which include survivor's first hand account of their experiences.

Introduction[edit|edit source]

"Human Traffickingis the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit. Men, women and children of all ages and from all backgrounds can become victims of this crime, which occurs in every region of the world." -United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime^[1]

Definitions[edit|edit source]

Needed definitions/concept within the context of human trafficking:

• Forceincludes physical restraint, physical harm, sexual assault, and beatings. Monitoring and confinement is often used to control victims, especially during early stages of victimization to break down the victim’s resistance.
• Fraudincludes false promises regarding employment, wages, working conditions, love, marriage, or better life. Over time, there may be unexpected changes in work conditions, compensation or debt agreements, or nature of relationship.
• Coercionincludes threats of serious harm to or physical restraint against any person, psychological manipulation, document confiscation, and shame and fear-inducing threats to share information or pictures with others or report to authorities.
• Recruitingincludes proactive targeting of vulnerability and grooming behaviors
• Harboringincludes isolation, confinement, monitoring
• Transportingincludes movement and arranging travel
• Providingincludes giving to another individual
• Obtainingincludes forcibly taking, exchanging something for ability to control
• Solicitingincludes offering something of value (only for sex trafficking)
• Patronizingincludes receiving something of value (only for sex trafficking)
• Commercial Sex Actis any sex act on account of anything of value given to or received by any person.
• Involuntary Servitude任何计划、计划或模式旨在引起a person to believe that, if the person did not enter into or continue in such condition, that person or another person would suffer serious harm or physical restraint; or the abuse or threatened abuse of the legal process.
• Debt Bondageincludes a pledge of services by the debtor or someone under debtor’s control to pay down known or unknown charges (e.g. fees for transportation, boarding, food, and other incidentals; interest, fines for missing quotas, and charges for “bad behavior). The length and nature of those services are not respectively limited and defined, where an individual is trapped in a cycle of debt that he or she can never pay down.
• Peonageis a status or condition of involuntary servitude based on real or alleged indebtedness
• Slaveryis the state of being under the ownership or control of someone where a person is forced to work for another.

Types of Trafficking, Dynamics, and Vulnerability Factors[edit|edit source]

• Smuggling (vs human trafficking)
• Consensual commercial sex (vs human trafficking)Commercial Sex Actis any sex act on account of anything of value given to or received by any person.
• Human trafficking (include all major forms including labour and sex)
  • Trafficking does not require crossing internations or state borders
  • Limitations of data on human trafficking
  • Victim: vulnerabilities to trafficking
  • Trafficker: present a variety of trafficker profiles and their recruitment techniques
• Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA), as amended(22 U.S.C. §7102).

Health Impact[edit|edit source]

• Acute injuries: physical, psychological, emotional
• Chronic medical problems/issues/concerns
• Mental health issues
• Reproductive/sexual health concerns
• Impact on QoL, autonomy and independence

Identification and Assessment[edit|edit source]

• Where are you most likely to interact with a trafficked person?
  • 被贩卖的人可能临床设置be encountered.
  • 申请康复professionals
• Identifying a trafficked person
  • the potential indicators of trafficking in persons
  • provider challenges to identification and response
  • challenges/opportunities when interfacing with trafficked persons
• Interacting with a trafficked person
  • Patient-centered
  • the role of trauma-informed care in trust-building and Communication.
  • provides samples of appropriate language to assist with identification.
  • the importance of the use of professional interpreters
  • provides strategies to have private conversations with potential trafficked persons.
  • Survivor barriers to disclosure
• Safety concerns
  • measures to keep oneself and patients safe.
  • describes the importance of appropriate documentation

Response and Follow Up[edit|edit source]

Intervention

• describes the importance of the healthcare provider role in intervention and response.
• includes a discussion of the importance of organizational Protocols.
• includes a discussion of mandated reporter obligations

Referrals

• describes the importance of survivor-centered, multidisciplinary referrals within the health care organization and with community partners.
• includes a discussion on the importance of building a trusted local network of resources
• includes a discussion of the implications of law enforcement involvement.

Resources

• provides information on how to contact your community, local, and/or state resources.
• National Human Trafficking Hotline number and text number along with any local hotlines.

Resources[edit|edit source]

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References[edit|edit source]