Fall 2017Newsletter
Quarterly Meeting & Updates
About 25 participants from various San Diego educational institutions, government entities, social service agencies, and organizations attended HT-RADAR’s sixth quarterly meeting on October 25. Jessica Whitney, MS, presented her research on how facilitators and buyers utilize emojis to communicate. She is an IT Specialist in the San Diego County District Attorney’s office. Other agenda topics included: current research needs regarding human trafficking and CSEC in San Diego County, updates about HT-RADAR’s annual conference, and discussion around pooling together funding sources and resources as a collective.
Welcome HT-RADAR 2017-2018 Intern
Lauren Perez has joined Point Loma Nazarene University’s Center for Justice and Reconciliation as HT-RADAR’s intern. Lauren is a Sophomore Socio-Criminal Justice with a Spanish minor. She hopes to attend law school after graduation to study criminal law. She has a passion for social issues, including racial reconciliation, immigration, and anti-labor and sex trafficking work. She will be assisting Research Associate, Bernadette Winter-Villaluz, in HT-RADAR’s growing work.
Research Highlights
Labor Trafficking Victimizations: Repeat Victimization and Polyvictimization
Ieke De Vries, PhD Candidate & Amy Farrell, PhDABSTRACT
Objective: To examine labor trafficking victimizations as forms of repeat victimization and polyvictimization. Method: The study uses secondary cross-sectional data about 115 labor-trafficked persons in the United States who received services after the labor trafficking experience. Through multivariate regression analyses, victimization patterns were investigated at each primary stage of the trafficking process (recruitment, transportation, employment). Results: Our findings demonstrate patterns of repeat victimization and polyvictimization among labor-trafficked persons. Prior victimization experiences before the onset of the trafficking significantly increased the odds of experiencing victimization during the initial stages of the trafficking process (recruitment and transportation). Victimization experiences during these initial stages further increased the risk of experiencing a higher count of polyvictimization during the final stage of the trafficking process (employment). Conclusions: Our study lays the groundwork for an analytical framework upon which to evaluate labor trafficking. The results call for early intervention and comprehensive assistance programs that take into account enduring and cumulative victimization patterns in order to meet the needs of identified labor-trafficked persons.
Ieke De Vries, MS, is a PhD Candidate in the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Prior to starting the PhD program, she worked for the Dutch Rapporteur on Trafficking in Human Beings and Sexual Violence against Children in The Netherlands.
Amy Farrell, PhD, is the Associate Director and an Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. Her research seeks to understand how the criminal justice system responds to newly recognized and prioritized crimes such as hate crimes and human trafficking.
Trafficking in US Agriculture
Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios, PhD & Yasutaka Yamamoto, PhD
ABSTRACT
Based on a qualitative methodology that includes in-depth interviews with 90 Mexican migrant smugglers and 45 Central American farmworkers, this article analyzes the three separate elements of trafficking in US agriculture, namely acts, means, and purposes. We conclude that some US employers participate in human trafficking by financing or helping to recruit and transport Mexican and Central American migrants to the US by means of “abuse of a position of vulnerability” for the purposes of involuntary servitude, debt bondage, and sex exploitation.
Simón Pedro Izcara Palacios, PhD, is a Professor of Social Sciences at the Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas. He has significant publications on human trafficking, labor exploitation, and migrant smuggling and has reached level 3 in the National System of Researchers.
Yasutaka Yamamoto, PhD, is a Professor of the Agricultural Research Institute in Hokkaido University.
Advertising Unreasonable Expectations: Nanny Ads on Craigslist
Craig D. Lair, PhD, Chad MacLeod, BA, & Ethan Budgar, BA
ABSTRACT
Research has shown that while some domestic workers in the United States work in situations that are fair and decent, many others face conditions of abuse, degradation, and/or exploitation. These conditions are commonly seen as a “hidden” aspect of domestic work. This article asks if these conditions are really as hidden as is commonly assumed. Through a content analysis of nanny ads on Craigslist, we explore whether employers are willing to advertise their expectation that nannies will work under one of three unreasonable conditions: i.e., for low pay, long daily hours, and/or long weekly hours. Overall, we find that of the ads that specify how much pay a nanny is expected to work for as well as how long she is expected to work, many contain unreasonable expectations. By looking at how these expectations are expressed in these ads, we can see that these unreasonable expectations are generally presented in a matter-of-fact manner. This suggests that these employers do not find these expectations to be that remarkable, notwithstanding how unreasonable they are.
Craig Lair, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology in Gettysburg College. His interests include economic sociology, the sociology of work, and social theory.
Chad MacLeod, BA, is a Client Services Associate and Data Intake Specialist for a health data management and analytics firm based in Portland, M
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Funding Opportunities
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- Faculty/Post-Doctoral Research Grant Program
- Close Date: November 15, 2017
- Elizabeth Munsterberg Koppitz Child Psychology Graduate Student Fellowship
- Close Date: November 15, 2017
- AAFP Joint Grant Awards Program
- Close Date: January 9, 2018
- Russell Sage Foundation: Social Inequality Grant
- Close Date: March 5, 2018
- Domestic Public Policy Program
- Currently receiving concept papers
- Public Welfare Foundation Program Grants
- Currently receiving LOIs for areas of criminal justice, youth justice, workers’ rights.
- Faculty/Post-Doctoral Research Grant Program
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