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Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States - Elzbieta M. Gozdziak

Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States

Reimagining Survivors
Buch | Hardcover
194 Seiten
2016
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8135-6970-3 (ISBN)
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Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.
Trafficked children are portrayed by the media—and even by child welfare specialists—as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex.   Basing her observations on research with 140 children, most of them girls, from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks many myths and uncovers the realities of the captivity, rescue, and rehabilitation of trafficked children. She shows, for instance, that none of the girls and boys portrayed in this book were kidnapped or physically forced to accompany their traffickers. In many instances, parents, or smugglers paid by family members, brought the girls to the U.S. Without exception, the girls and boys in this study believed they were coming to the States to find employment and in some cases educational opportunities.  Following them from the time they were trafficked to their years as young adults, Gozdziak gives the children a voice so they can offer their own perspective on rebuilding their lives—getting jobs, learning English, developing friendships, and finding love. Gozdziak looks too at how the children’s perspectives compare to the ideas of child welfare programs, noting that the children focus on survival techniques while the institutions focus, not helpfully, on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children. 
Breaking new ground, Trafficked Children in the United States offers a fresh take on what matters most to these young people as they rebuild their lives in America. 

ELZBIETA M. GOZDZIAK is the professor of research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She was formerly the editor of the journal International Migration and is co-editor of three books including Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability.

           AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Afong Means StrengthIntroduction: Researching and Writing about Child TraffickingPart IMoral Panics1         “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking2         The Old and New AbolitionistsPart II       “Captured”3         Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers4         Not Chained to a Bed in a BrothelPart III       “Rescued”5         Hidden in Plain Sight6         Jail the Offender, Protect the VictimPart IV       “Restored”  7         Idealized Childhoods8         Healing the WoundedEpilogue: Everyday Struggles          Notes          Bibliography          Index 

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies
Zusatzinfo 3 tables
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 399 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sexualität / Partnerschaft
Geisteswissenschaften Psychologie Sozialpsychologie
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-8135-6970-2 / 0813569702
ISBN-13 978-0-8135-6970-3 / 9780813569703
Zustand Neuware
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