IBSS-Ex: Exploratory Research Regarding the Return Home of Trafficking Survivors

这一跨学科研究项目将结合对国际移徙组织开发的全球人口贩运数据库效用的探索，以及与回返者和社区利益攸关方的访谈，审查人口贩运受害者的回返和重新融入社会问题。该项目将帮助评估需要哪些类型的数据才能更好地了解人口贩运受害者返回和重返社会的动态和进程。通过分析现有数据和得出新的定性和可用的定量数据的实证研究，调查人员将帮助确定未来的研究需求，以了解与返回相关的决策、持续的服务需求、满足这些需求的方案的可用性以及社区对返回的幸存者的态度。该项目将促进向注重经验证据的过渡，以此作为解决返回受害者的需求和权利的一种手段，从而为现有方案的循证评估奠定基础。该项目应有助于为今后的工作奠定基础，以便更准确地了解回返的影响，包括幸存者重新融入原籍社区的能力和重新贩运的风险。项目结果将有助于评估被贩运幸存者返回后持续的就业、教育和卫生需求，以及回返者获得促进可持续社会经济重新融合的有效服务的机会。调查人员将使用混合方法从三个不同的数据来源获得见解。他们将对国际移民组织开发的数据库进行统计分析，该数据库涉及来自世界各地的138,092名人口贩运受害者。该数据库包括近200个关于人口统计资料、贩运前和贩运后经历以及个人和非政府组织提供的回返和重返社会资源的项目。调查人员将与摩尔多瓦和尼泊尔的服务提供者进行实地工作，以了解重新融入社会的幸存者所面临的挑战，他们还将与一些成年后返回的幸存者进行面谈，以了解内部人士对长期重新融入社会经济生活的挑战和前景的看法。该项目通过NSF跨学科行为和社会科学研究(IBSS)竞赛得到支持。

This interdisciplinary research project will examine the return and reintegration of victims of human trafficking by combining exploration of the utility of the Global Human Trafficking Database developed by the International Organization for Migration together with the conduct of interviews with returnees and with community stakeholders. The project will help assess what types of data are needed to better understand the dynamics and processes of return and reintegration of persons who have been the victims of human trafficking. Through analysis of existing data and empirical research eliciting new qualitative and available quantitative data, the investigators will help identify future research needs to understand decision making related to return, ongoing service needs, and the availability of programs to meet these needs as well as community attitudes towards returned survivors. The project will facilitate a transition to a focus on empirical evidence as a means of addressing the needs and rights of returned victims, thus laying groundwork for evidence-based evaluation of existing programs. This project should help set the stage for future work that will more accurate information about the effects of return, including both the survivors' ability to re-integrate into the communities of origin and the risks for re-trafficking. Project findings will help assess the ongoing employment, education, and health needs of trafficked survivors after they return as well as the returnees' access to effective services fostering sustainable socioeconomic reintegration.The investigators will use a mixed-methods approach to gain insights from three different data sources. They will conduct statistical analyses of a database on 138,092 trafficking victims from around the world that was developed by the International Organization for Migration. This database includes nearly 200 items about demographics, pre- and post-trafficking experiences, and the individual and non-governmental organization-provided resources for return and reintegration. The investigators will engage in field work with service providers in Moldova and Nepal to gain an understanding of the challenges of reintegrating survivors, and they will conduct interviews with selected survivors who returned as adults to obtain an insiders' perspective about the challenges and prospects for long-term socioeconomic reintegration. This project is supported through the NSF Interdisciplinary Behavioral and Social Sciences Research (IBSS) competition.