Evaluation of anti-trafficking policy and legislation in relation to male victims of labour exploitation, and public attitudes towards trafficked men

这个博士项目汇集了政治心理学和法律研究的见解，以解决一个重要的问题：什么是心理和法律的过程，解释男性受害者在人口贩运话语中的可见度降低？该项目力求了解社会规范与对被贩运以进行劳动剥削的成年男性普遍存在的歧视态度之间的关系，重点研究对男性特征、受害者身份和耻辱形成的政治心理理解。该项目采用了方法学上的三角研究设计。它将使用“性别甄别”的密码本系统地审查反贩运政策和立法，对公众进行调查实验，以衡量年龄、性别和贩运目的的影响，对一系列社区、法律的和政治参与团体进行半结构化访谈，以衡量对人口贩运的性别态度，并对社区成员进行基于人种学的观察，以获得有关态度的定性见解。该项目将深入了解对被贩运男子的普遍看法，以及形成和复制这些看法的方式和目的。该项目还将提出政策建议，以期将男性受害者纳入贩运人口问题的讨论，并挑战基于性别的歧视态度。

This PhD project brings together insights in political psychology and law studies, to address an important question: what are the psychological and legal processes that explain the reduced visibility of male victims in the human trafficking discourse? The project seeks to understand the relationship between social norms and the prevalence of discriminatory attitudes towards adult males trafficked for labour exploitation, focusing on research on the political psychological understanding of masculinities, victimhood and stigma formation. The project adopts a methodologically triangulated research design. It will systematically examine anti-trafficking policies and legislation using a 'gender-screened' codebook, conduct survey experiments with the general public to measure the effects of age, gender and trafficking purpose, hold semi-structured interviews with a range of community-based, legal and political participant groups to measure gender-related attitudes to human trafficking, and conduct ethnographic-based observations of community members to gain qualitative insights on related attitudes.The project will gain in-depth understanding of the prevalent perceptions towards trafficked men, and the ways and the purposes for which they are formed and reproduced. The project will also generate policy recommendations with a view to include male victims in the trafficking discourse and challenge gender-based discriminatory attitudes.