Crime and Delinquency
Volume 64, Issue 13, 2018, Pages 1765-1789

More Than Just “Pushing and Pulling”: Conceptualizing Identified Human Trafficking in the Netherlands (Article)

Kragten-Heerdink S.L.J.* , Dettmeijer-Vermeulen C.E. , Korf D.J.
  • a National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence Against Children, The Hague, Netherlands
  • b National Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence Against Children, The Hague, Netherlands
  • c University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

Abstract

By tradition, the human trafficking discourse focuses on cross-border sex trafficking from impoverished countries to countries with a high standard of living. This article explores whether identified trafficking in the Netherlands corresponds to this. We introduce a model that identifies all possible trafficking situations, and with this, intends to prevent tunnel vision and identify blind spots. Subsequently, we analyze 768 trafficking cases identified by the Dutch Public Prosecution Service (2008-2012) and categorize each case according to our model: by form of exploitation and route of trafficking. The data show that (near-)domestic sex trafficking where victims are not pushed out of impoverished countries, but are recruited on native (or neighboring) soil, is the human trafficking situation most commonly identified. © The Author(s) 2017.

Author Keywords

(near-)domestic trafficking routes of (non)sexual trafficking Human trafficking Push and pull factors The Netherlands

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85041903557&doi=10.1177%2f0011128717728503&partnerID=40&md5=997036709c7ba8c54638041c99c036ec
DOI: 10.1177/0011128717728503
ISSN: 00111287
Cited by: 3
Original Language: English