RT Article
T1 Human trafficking for labour exploitation: The survivors’ perspective
JF International review of victimology
VO 30
IS 2
SP 240
OP 260
A1 Villacampa Estiarte, Carolina
LA English
YR 2024
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1888278943
AB Despite being the second most prevalent form of human trafficking, human trafficking for labour exploitation remains a victimisation process that has received little scholarly attention. This qualitative study, based on data from in-depth interviews with labour trafficking survivors in Spain, seeks to apprehend how they experienced that situation while giving them a voice and adopting a survivor-centric approach to the phenomenon. To this end, it first analyses from their perspective the process of their enslavement, as well as the feelings it engendered: from recruitment, to transfer, to exploitation, including the objective circumstances and means used. It then analyses the essential aspects of the process leading to their liberation, examining how the situation was ended, the type of assistance received and desired, and the recourse they had to a criminal law response. It concludes with a series of proposals for how labour trafficking should be institutionally addressed in view of the survivors’ suggestions.
K1 Experience
K1 Survivors
K1 Liberation
K1 labour exploitation
K1 Labour trafficking
DO 10.1177/02697580231167907