Human Trafficking and Legal Culture in Latin America: A nested socio-legal comparative study

这个研究项目将从区域和比较的角度全面处理拉丁美洲反贩运规定的细微差别和解释。通过法律文化的视角，该项目将确定反贩运法律的模式和趋势，并结合具有意义的因素进行分析。为了对拉丁美洲由法律文化构建和塑造的人口贩运问题有一个当代语境的理解，本研究项目将解决核心研究问题：拉丁美洲国家的法律文化如何影响反人口贩运法律的理解、驯化和应用？本研究将解决三个子问题：1。拉丁美洲的国际禁止人口贩运是如何被驯化的？法律文化如何影响拉丁美洲反贩运条款的设计和适用？还有哪些其他因素影响了拉丁美洲反贩运条款的设计和适用？该项目将采用混合方法嵌套分析，在三个尺度上操作：全球、区域和国家。该项目将分为代表这些不同尺度的三个研究流，每个尺度的学习为其他尺度的分析提供信息和改革。1. 全球二手数据分析将利用新的和已建立的国际定量数据集，这些数据集与反贩运禁令的国内化有关。这包括全球奴隶制指数（Walk Free Foundation）和国内立法中的反奴隶制（Schwarz & Allain, 2020）等数据集。这一流程将确定与政治、历史、经济和文化背景有关的潜在解释性因素，形成量化证据基础，对与反贩运法律的设计和执行有关的因素进行统计分析。2. 区域理论和实证分析将考虑拉丁美洲的区域法律背景，询问美洲间人权法中国际反贩运规范的翻译。将采用理论和质量方法，从法律文化的角度审查美洲委员会和法院面前的法律文本和案件，设法了解构成法律设计和解释基础的上下文意义因素。区域法律分析还将包括对整个拉丁美洲反贩运法的比较考虑，在研究流程(1)中为审讯提供更多的定量和定性证据，并考虑区域制度与国内法之间的相互作用。3. 在两个拉丁美洲国家进行的国家案例研究将对法律文化及其如何影响反贩运法律的设计和实施进行深入研究。国家案例研究——将在初步数据分析的基础上根据确定的案例选择框架进行选择——将识别和绘制法律体系的意义形成因素、特征和潜在价值和原则，以了解它们如何影响反贩运法律。预计主要数据收集将包括半结构化的关键信息提供者访谈和对决策者和从业人员的调查，但也可能采用其他定性和混合方法。

This research project will comprehensively address the nuances and interpretations of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America in regional and comparative perspective. Through the lens of legal culture, the project will identify patterns and trends in anti-trafficking laws, analysed in conjunction with meaning-making factors. To develop a contemporary contextual understanding of human trafficking in Latin America as constructed and shaped by legal culture, this research project will address the core research question: How have legal cultures in Latin American countries shaped the understanding, domestication, and application of the anti-trafficking laws?This research will address three sub-questions:1. How has the international prohibition of trafficking been domesticated in Latin America?2. How have legal cultures shaped the design and application of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America?3. What other factors have shaped the design and application of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America?The project will employ a mixed methods nested analysis operating at three scales: global, regional, and national. The project will be divided into three research streams representing these different scales, with learnings from each scale informing and reforming analysis across the others. 1. Global secondary data analysis will take advantage of new and established international quantitative datasets relevant to the domestication of the anti-trafficking prohibition. This includes datasets such as the Global Slavery Index (Walk Free Foundation) and the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation (Schwarz & Allain, 2020) and others. This stream will identify potential explanatory factors linked to political, historical, economic, and cultural contexts, to form a quantitative evidence base for statistical analysis of factors related to the design and implementation of anti-trafficking laws. 2. Regional doctrinal and empirical analysis will consider the regional legal context of Latin America, interrogating the translation of international anti-trafficking norms in Inter-American human rights law. Doctrinal and qualitative methods will be employed to examine legal texts and cases before both the Inter-American Commission and the Court through the lens of legal culture, seeking to understand the contextual meaning-making factors underpinning the law's design and interpretation. Regional legal analysis will also include comparative consideration of anti-trafficking law across Latin America, drawing additional quantitative and qualitative evidence into the interrogation delivered in research stream (1) and considering the interplay between the regional system and domestic laws. 3. National case studies in two Latin American countries will deliver a close examination of legal culture in context, and how this shapes the design and implementation of anti-trafficking laws. The national case studies-to be selected based on a defined case selection framework driven by preliminary data analysis-will identify and map meaning-making factors, characteristics, and underlying values and principles of the legal system to understand how they shape anti-trafficking laws. Primary data collection is expected to include semi-structured key informant interviews and surveys with policymakers and practitioners but may also employ other qualitative and mixed methods.