DIIS seminar: Livet efter menneskehandel

TID: Mandag d. 9. december kl. 14.30-16.30

STED: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Main Auditorium, Østbanegade 117, ground floor, 2100 København Ø.

Human trafficking is generally understood as a specific form of migration, defined by the form, the means and the purpose of migration.

TID: Mandag d. 9. december kl. 14.30-16.30

STED: Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), Main Auditorium, Østbanegade 117, ground floor, 2100 København Ø.

Human trafficking is generally understood as a specific form of migration, defined by the form, the means and the purpose of migration.

In international protocols and law, human trafficking refers to persons recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt by the means of threat, use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payment and benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation.

Yet, research into the blurred area of undocumented migration, human smuggling and human trafficking often show that trafficking, like other forms of migration, is rooted in future-oriented strategies of survival in an age of economic decline and stricter border control.

Invited guest speaker, Denise Brennan, will talk about life after trafficking into forced labour in the United States. Her presentation illuminates the challenges facing individuals with a trafficking designation in the United States as they settle into new lives in towns and cities throughout the country.

It focuses on the aspects of resettlement that are specific to this small population (under 4.000 individuals) as well as those that many low-wage migrants confront. Years into their resettlement, many formerly trafficked persons, like other migrants in their neighbourhoods and workplaces, struggle on the edge of poverty.

This seminar turns the spotlight on life after trafficking. The seminar is part of the DIIS migration seminar series, which focuses on themes relevant to migration research and policy.

Denise Brennan is Chair of the Department of Anthropology where she teaches classes on gender, migration, labor, and field research. She just completed a book on how survivors of trafficking rebuild their lives; Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States (Release March 2014, Duke University Press).

She is also the author of What’s Love Got to Do with It? Transnational Desires and Sex Tourism in the Dominican Republic (2004, Duke University Press). She currently conducts field research for a book on how families cope with detention and deportation; Shattering Families: Detention, Deportation and the Assault on Immigrants in the United States.

The seminar will be held in English.

Participation is free of charge, but registration is required. Please use the online registration form no later than Friday, 6 December 2013 at 12.00 noon.

Sign up at: http://en.diis.dk/home/seminars/2013/life+after+human+trafficking

Please await confirmation by e-mail from DIIS for participation.