Doctoral Dissertation Research: Local Actors and US Anti-Trafficking Policy: Interpretation, Mediation, and Implementation

博士论文研究：当地行为者和美国反人口贩运政策：解释、调解和实施

• 批准号: 0617259
• 负责人: Carole Vance
• 金额: $ 0.85万
• 依托单位: Columbia University
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2006
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2006-09-01 至 2008-08-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0617259&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Doctoral; Dissertation; Research; Local; Actors

C. Vance & A. Peters Abstract:This ethnographic study examines the implementation of US anti-trafficking policy in the New York metropolitan area. Anti-trafficking laws, increasingly implemented at the national and international level, aim to prevent the real and serious problem of forced, coerced, or deceptive movement of people into exploitative conditions of labor. Specifically, this study focuses on the diverse meanings and consequences of a recent US law, the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) of 2000, for government officials, victims of trafficking, and the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) who provide services to them under the legislation. Using a combination of ethnographic methods and policy analysis, this project links and contrasts the abstract terms of policy and how it is implemented locally and translated into service delivery on the ground. The study investigates the relationship between how the law is conceptualized and written and how federal officials and service providers implement it. The study uses multiple methods at multiple sites, including participant observation, in-depth life history interviews, archival research, and policy analysis. The investigator will examine how government officials, trafficked women, and the organizations providing them with services use, understand, and interpret the law. This combination of methods will enable one to compare data and contrast individuals' interpretations of the TVPA with the actual terms of law and policy. Broader Impacts: This study has practical applications for lawmakers and NGO service providers seeking to better understand the impact of anti-trafficking law and policy on victims of severe forms of trafficking, and ultimately improve the ways in which it can be utilized to benefit these individuals. Ethnography of trafficked women's interactions with NGO service providers will illuminate the ways in which federal policy is operationalized at the local level and how national policies on migration and trafficking affect the everyday lives of trafficked women. The study will shed light on broader uses of gender within the phenomenon of people trafficking.

C. Vance＆A。Peters摘要：这项民族志研究研究了美国反贩运政策在纽约大都会地区的实施。在国家和国际一级越来越多地实施的反贩运法律旨在防止人们将人们的真正和严重的问题转向劳动剥削条件。具体而言，本研究的重点是美国最近法律，2000年《贩运受害者保护法》（TVPA）的各种含义和后果，针对政府官员，贩运的受害者和非政府组织（NGO）（NGO），这些组织（NGO）在该立法下为他们提供服务。该项目结合了民族志方法和政策分析，将策略的抽象条款及其在本地实施并将其转化为当地的服务交付。该研究调查了法律的概念和书面方式与联邦官员和服务提供者的实施之间的关系。该研究在多个站点使用多种方法，包括参与者观察，深入的人生历史访谈，档案研究和政策分析。调查人员将研究政府官员，被贩运的妇女以及为她们提供服务使用，理解和解释法律的组织。这种方法的结合将使人们能够比较数据和对比个人对TVPA的解释与法律和政策的实际条款。更广泛的影响：这项研究对寻求更好地理解反贩运法律和政策对严重贩运形式的受害者的影响的立法者和非政府组织服务提供商有实际应用，并最终改善了它可以利用其受益的方式。被贩运妇女与非政府组织服务提供商互动的民族志将阐明联邦政策在地方一级运作的方式，以及关于移民和贩运的国家政策如何影响被贩运妇女的日常生活。这项研究将阐明在贩运人们现象中的性别更广泛使用。