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Human Trafficking and Migration: Examining the Issues from Gender and Policy Perspectives

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This chapter highlights the needs to address human trafficking and migration issues from gender and policy perspectives. Among the mass waves of migration, women and girls are more vulnerable and easily become prey to traffickers. In terms of migration policies, migration-supportive policies and migration-restrictive policies have different gender impacts. To successfully protect people from the risks of being trafficked in their migration, multifaceted factors should be considered.

This chapter examines the human trafficking and migration nexus, to differentiate human trafficking and smuggling of migrants, and point out policy issues and gender issues in human trafficking and migration nexus. Moreover, this chapter aims to give recommendations to the states for paying special attention to women in both policies and intervention activities. The chapter argues that, human trafficking and smuggling of migrants are two distinct crimes but having overlapping problems. It is important to distinguish the two crimes to help pursue relevant interventions. Further, there are different policy and gender issues in human trafficking and migration nexus that call for gender responsive policy to tackle human trafficking and smuggling of migrants as well as to protect the victims. To successfully protect people from the risks of being trafficked in their migration, different factors should be considered, especially gender and policy issues, and anti-trafficking policy must be gender responsive to successfully respond to specific needs of trafficked victims.

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    Kim Anh Duong

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This book chapter is dedicated to the memory of my beloved daughter Phuong Lan, Nguyen

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Duong, K.A. (2019). Human Trafficking and Migration: Examining the Issues from Gender and Policy Perspectives. In: Winterdyk, J., Jones, J. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Human Trafficking. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63192-9_131-1

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