RT Article
T1 Empowerment at Work?: Examining Employment-Based Economic Empowerment Initiatives for Survivors of Commercial Sexual Exploitation
JF Violence against women
VO 30
IS 6/7
SP 1407
OP 1430
A1 Corple, Danielle J.
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1885428022
AB Many organizations serving survivors of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) have begun economic empowerment programs, providing financial literacy education, vocational training, and/or employment opportunities for survivors. Yet, very little research has examined these programs, especially those that employ survivors. This project draws on a qualitative, multi-method study of 15 organizations that serve and employ CSE survivors to examine how economic empowerment is constructed through organizational discourse and practices, what tensions emerge in these processes, and how organizational actors frame and respond to them. The findings outline the components of “economic empowerment” and explicate the key tensions of authority-autonomy and compassion-accountability.
K1 Social Enterprise
K1 Nonprofit
K1 economic empowerment
K1 Human Trafficking
K1 Commercial sexual exploitation
DO 10.1177/10778012231181047