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Trafficked Children and Youth in the United Stat – Reimagining Survivors: Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies

Autor Elzbieta M. Gozdziak
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 mai 2016
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.
 
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780813569697
ISBN-10: 0813569699
Pagini: 194
Ilustrații: 3 tables
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 10 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:None
Editura: Wiley
Seria Rutgers Series in Childhood Studies


Notă biografică

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.

Cuprins

           Acknowledgments
Prologue: Afong Means Strength
Introduction: Researching and Writing about Child Trafficking
Part IMoral Panics
1         “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking
2         The Old and New Abolitionists
Part II       “Captured”
3         Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers
4         Not Chained to a Bed in a Brothel
Part III       “Rescued”
5         Hidden in Plain Sight
6         Jail the Offender, Protect the Victim
Part IV       “Restored”  
7         Idealized Childhoods
8         Healing the Wounded
Epilogue: Everyday Struggles
          Notes
          Bibliography
          Index
 

Recenzii

"This highly readable, informative text recounts the story of 140 trafficked children as well as the history of this criminal act and its consequences … Goździak recognized the need for a well-researched, objective point of view and presents the challenges and the facts that victims of trafficking face even when identified and rescued from their horrific situations ... Recommended."

"Gozdziak's work is a welcome addition to the critical study of anti-trafficking institutions and services, a nuanced and compassionate portrayal of the complex lived realities of young people who move and migrate, however precariously, in search of better opportunities and futures."

"By centering trafficked youth's voices and experiences, Gozdziak demonstrates the importance of survivor-centered approaches, even when their narratives contradict and complicate current antitrafficking discourse."

"This is a thoughtful and important book about victims of child trafficking.  Its strength lies in the juxtaposition of programmatic responses to trafficking with child survivors’ own perceptions of their experiences and needs."

Descriere

Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus 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.