The book highlights the root cause of human trafficking and analyses how factors of vulnerability affect the marginalized, especially during and after a disaster. Human trafficking like other studies on disaster research, needs to be tackled from various perspectives such as empowering the vulnerable people, creating awareness, strengthening the disaster risk reduction measures and creating a common platform to fight the vicious circle by breaking its continuity and making strategies victim centric and people friendly.
The book adapts a multidisciplinary approach embedding concepts from political, social, economic and anthropological perceptions. The discourse in the book revolves around the emotional and psycho-social stress factors including weak implementation of laws and policies at various levels. The content weaves around three themes -- magnitude and interlinks between disaster and human trafficking; policies and protocols on disaster risk reduction and human trafficking and community participation and institutional support. Through these themes, the volume works on identification of the vulnerable areas which are not in compliance with the Sendai Framework of Action, 2015 in the backdrop of the Disaster Management Act of India, 2005. The volume will be of immense interest to a wide range of practitioners, researchers, academicians, policy makers, political leaders, gender experts, international organizations, disaster management authorities, civil society organisations, and scholars working in the area of human rights in general and trafficking in particular.
Note: This research was funded by Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR).
Human Trafficking is complex, layered and lies at the intersections of multiple vulnerabilities, gender being among the most significant ones. This gets exacerbated during both natural and human made disasters. Any attempt to either understand or address it will be fraught with challenges if women and girls' unique vulnerabilities, as well as their needs, voice, choice, agency and safety is not centre-staged in any effort. Mondira's book does exactly that...it succinctly and in simple words explores the compounding discriminations, including structural inequalities, that cause and result in women and girls differential gendered vulnerabilities to being trafficked during disasters. Once this is understood, the solutions can be specific, gender responsive, and sustainable.
- Anju Dubey Pandey, Gender Responsive Governance and Ending Violence against Women Specialist, UN Women, New Delhi, India
Author(s): Mondira Dutta
Publisher: Springer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 218
City: Singapore
Preface
Contents
About the Author
Acronyms
List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Maps
List of Exhibits
1 Introduction
Context
Methodology and Field Visit
Disaster and Human Trafficking—Interlinks
Magnitude of Human Trafficking
Violence Against Women (VAW)
Policies and Protocols
Community Participation
References
2 Links Between Disaster and Human Trafficking
Disaster and Human Trafficking—The Perception
Disaster Mitigation and Risk Reduction
Disaster Management Act
Sendai Framework of Action (SFA) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Mapping the Vulnerable Areas
The Disaster Response Plan
Crime Against Women
References
3 Civil Society Organizations and Community Participation
Significance of CSOs and NGOs
Awareness and Sensitization
Networking, Advocacy and Media
Training and Capacity Building
Vigilance, Prosecution and Conviction
Information, Education, Technology and Communication (IETC)
Community-Based Preventive Measures—A Composite Picture
References
4 Laws, Policies and Protocols
The Legal Framework
International Protocols
Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)
The Yokohama Strategy
Hyogo and the Sendai Framework
Sustainable Development Goals (SDG)
Regional Policies and the Disaster Management Act
Anti-trafficking Measures
References
5 Bridging the Gaps between Institutions and Civil Society Organization
Institutional Mechanisms
The West Bengal Task Force, Directorate of Child Rights
West Bengal State Commission of Protection for Child Rights (WBSCPCR)
Anti-Human Trafficking Units (AHTU, WB)
Office of the District Magistrate, South 24 Parganas
Border Security Force (BSF)
Judiciary
Parliamentarians
Non-Governmental Organisation
Shelter Homes
References
6 Conclusion
Annexure I: Advisory on Combating Human Trafficking in India, 2009
Annexure II: Advisory on Preventing and Combating Human Trafficking in India—Dealing with Foreign Nationals, 2012
Annexure III: TIP Report 2019: Country Narrative (India)
India: TIER 2
Annexure IV: Links of Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) with Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
Annexure V: Field Visit Survey, November 2018, Kolkata, West Bengal
