The transitional impact on human trafficking: a socio-legal case study of child trafficking from Poland to Sweden
(2014) RÄSM02 20141Department of Sociology of Law
- Abstract
- Research show that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries today, after narcotics and illegal arms trade (The Polaris Project 2014). The most common victims of human trafficking are stated to be women and children (UNODC 2012). According to the UNICEF (2007), 1,2 million children are estimated to be exposed to trafficking for various exploitative purposes every year around the world, and the European context is not regarded an exception (UNICEF 2014). However, statistics and vague empirical data have made it difficult to examine the area of child trafficking properly. Due to this fact, there are existing gaps regarding the documentation of child victims of trafficking that needs to be filled (Parmentier 2010).... (More)
- Research show that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries today, after narcotics and illegal arms trade (The Polaris Project 2014). The most common victims of human trafficking are stated to be women and children (UNODC 2012). According to the UNICEF (2007), 1,2 million children are estimated to be exposed to trafficking for various exploitative purposes every year around the world, and the European context is not regarded an exception (UNICEF 2014). However, statistics and vague empirical data have made it difficult to examine the area of child trafficking properly. Due to this fact, there are existing gaps regarding the documentation of child victims of trafficking that needs to be filled (Parmentier 2010). This thesis examines the situation of trafficking in adults and children in Europe, with a specific focus on child victims from Poland to Sweden, as information displays that continuous trafficking routes between these countries have been occurrent since the early 1990’s (The Swedish Police 2014, The Protection Project-Poland). Even though a variety of factors might have impacted such development, this thesis suggests that the Polish legal culture in transition, and a condition of normlessness might be the most-relevant causes to emphasize and examine in relation to this topic. Thus, Poland has, in fact, ratified a large amount of international anti-trafficking legislation, as well as enforced national strategies and laws against trafficking in humans (ECPAT International 2012:30). However, the trafficking industry from Poland still continues to exist, Sweden being one of the main destination countries of women and girls in Europe (The Swedish Police 2014). This thesis encourages that it is a necessity to examine European countries individually in order to understand how and why human trafficking continues to exist in Europe despite international anti-trafficking legislation developments, and provides with a deeper analysis of situational reports in regard to adult and child trafficking in Europe, and in particular Poland and Sweden. (Less)
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- author
- Naskova, Lidia LU
- supervisor
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- Ida Nafstad LU
- organization
- course
- RÄSM02 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- H2 - Master's Degree (Two Years)
- subject
- keywords
- Poland, Sweden, child trafficking, normlessness, legal culture, Sociology of law, Europe
- language
- English
- id
- 4460235
- date added to LUP
- 2014-06-30 10:52:56
- date last changed
- 2016-02-09 17:14:58
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abstract = {{Research show that human trafficking is one of the fastest growing criminal industries today, after narcotics and illegal arms trade (The Polaris Project 2014). The most common victims of human trafficking are stated to be women and children (UNODC 2012). According to the UNICEF (2007), 1,2 million children are estimated to be exposed to trafficking for various exploitative purposes every year around the world, and the European context is not regarded an exception (UNICEF 2014). However, statistics and vague empirical data have made it difficult to examine the area of child trafficking properly. Due to this fact, there are existing gaps regarding the documentation of child victims of trafficking that needs to be filled (Parmentier 2010). This thesis examines the situation of trafficking in adults and children in Europe, with a specific focus on child victims from Poland to Sweden, as information displays that continuous trafficking routes between these countries have been occurrent since the early 1990’s (The Swedish Police 2014, The Protection Project-Poland). Even though a variety of factors might have impacted such development, this thesis suggests that the Polish legal culture in transition, and a condition of normlessness might be the most-relevant causes to emphasize and examine in relation to this topic. Thus, Poland has, in fact, ratified a large amount of international anti-trafficking legislation, as well as enforced national strategies and laws against trafficking in humans (ECPAT International 2012:30). However, the trafficking industry from Poland still continues to exist, Sweden being one of the main destination countries of women and girls in Europe (The Swedish Police 2014). This thesis encourages that it is a necessity to examine European countries individually in order to understand how and why human trafficking continues to exist in Europe despite international anti-trafficking legislation developments, and provides with a deeper analysis of situational reports in regard to adult and child trafficking in Europe, and in particular Poland and Sweden.}},
author = {{Naskova, Lidia}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{The transitional impact on human trafficking: a socio-legal case study of child trafficking from Poland to Sweden}},
year = {{2014}},
}