Human traffickers in the UK and Australia: a comparative study on criminal trajectories.

英国和澳大利亚的人口贩运者：犯罪轨迹的比较研究。

• 批准号: 2120186
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Southampton
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2018
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2018 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2120186
• 关键词: Human; traffickers; UK; Australia; comparative

There has been global interest in human trafficking from political actors to NGOs (Elliott, 2015). Human trafficking is a complex and multifaceted transnational crime, generally linked to the rise of globalisation and migration flows (Atasu-Topcuolu, 2015; Shelley, 2010). Australia and the UK are considered to be tier 1 countries meaning they rank highly in their efforts in combating human trafficking, however both countries deal with quite different migration flows (Department of State, 2017). It has been suggested human trafficking will increase after Brexit due to the demise of free movement (ATMG, 2017). So far, most studies into human trafficking have focused on the victims (Contreras, Kallivayalil and Herman, 2017; Elliott, 2015), while the offending pathways of a human trafficker is still poorly understood (Board 2015). This research seeks to address this gap by developing a comparative study investigating criminal trajectories in the UK and Australia by looking at the 'push' and 'pull' factors that contribute to an individual becoming a human trafficker. The research will take a hermeneutic interpretivist approach focusing on qualitative research (Bryman, 2016). Interviews will be conducted with human traffickers, criminal justice agencies and NGOs to gain a holistic perspective as to what factors may contribute to an individual becoming a human trafficker and if these factors differ in the respective countries. I will conduct content analysis on documents such as judicial records and media publications to highlight demographic characteristics of human traffickers. The collected data will be transcribed and coded to identify key themes for analysis.

从政治行为者到非政府组织，全球都对人口贩运感兴趣（Elliott，2015年）。人口贩运是一种复杂和多方面的跨国犯罪，通常与全球化和移民流动的兴起有关（Atasu-Topcuolu，2015年; Shelley，2010年）。澳大利亚和英国被认为是第1级国家，这意味着它们在打击人口贩运方面的努力排名很高，但两国处理的移民流动情况截然不同（国务院，2017年）。有人建议，由于自由流动的消亡，英国脱欧后人口贩运将增加（ATMG，2017）。到目前为止，大多数关于人口贩运的研究都集中在受害者身上（Contreras，Kallivayalil和赫尔曼，2017; Elliott，2015），而对人口贩运者的犯罪途径仍然知之甚少（Board 2015）。本研究旨在通过开发一项比较研究来解决这一差距，该研究通过研究促使个人成为人贩子的"推"和"拉"因素来调查英国和澳大利亚的犯罪轨迹。该研究将采用诠释学解释主义方法，重点是定性研究（Bryman，2016）。将与人口贩运者、刑事司法机构和非政府组织进行访谈，以全面了解可能导致个人成为人口贩运者的因素以及这些因素在各国是否不同。我将对司法记录和媒体出版物等文件进行内容分析，以突出人口贩运者的人口特征。收集的数据将被转录和编码，以确定用于分析的关键主题。