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Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation of Migrants

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This article provides an overview of existing knowledge on labor exploitation and human trafficking, focusing on its definition, push and pull factors and health outcomes. It shows that migration is a process of movements, and it considers human trafficking as a series of event-related stages during which various risks, including to health, may arise. Those are discussed at the recruitment stage, the travel and transit stage, the exploitation stage, the detention stage and the integration or reintegration stage. The article shows the lack of existing empirical evidence on human trafficking and labor exploitation, and introduces two key studies – the “Study on Trafficking, Exploitation and Abuse in the Mekong Sub-region” and the study “Health of Trafficked Women: A Survey of Women Entering Post-trafficking Services in Europe.”

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Stöckl, H. (2018). Human Trafficking and Labor Exploitation of Migrants. In: Balica, E., Marinescu, V. (eds) Migration and Crime. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95813-2_1

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