The Fight against Human Trafficking by Maria Ravlik

Author:Maria Ravlik
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9783030332044
Publisher: Springer International Publishing

Discussion

The statistical results presented in this chapter prove that differences across countries in anti-trafficking enforcement are statistically significant even after controlling for population size and a country’s level of resources. When various global drivers are taken into account, gender inequality, state capacity, and political culture play the most crucial role in shaping expert ratings of anti-trafficking enforcement. The omission of these macro-level drivers from the international standards of anti-trafficking enforcement might be harmful as statistics shows while including them would allow bridging the weak spots in the implementation of anti-trafficking laws with global realities.

I believe that the interpretation of results presented in this chapter should go beyond mere statistics. Since previous research does not rely much on quantitative analysis, there are not many global patterns of anti-trafficking enforcement outlined in the literature. Thus, starting with establishing theoretical drivers of global anti-trafficking enforcement was the first step in this book. During this step, it became evident that great efforts are made to examine how well countries address the issue of human trafficking though not fully disclosing the methodology of countries ratings. Although the TIP report provides quite extensive country reports every year with examples on cases of prosecuted trafficking cases, rescued victims, survivors stories or funds allocated to each country, this report, first, causes heated debates and, second, does not attempt to present the global trends by analyzing countries efforts to combat human trafficking. Substantive effects of specific macro-level drivers cannot be underestimated, and I argue that they should be included in policymakers’ agendas. It is reasonable to suggest that countries with more extensive resources make more efforts to comply with international legislation. However, if we break down the types of resources which drive anti-trafficking enforcement, it is quite evident that not all resources are used in full capacity and to some countries, it is not even important to achieve this goal.

Moreover, changes in enforcement are not likely to happen quickly, and it will take time to achieve these goals. In order to make this process a successful one, it is essential to take into account not only one side of the story—the story of reaching higher levels of anti-trafficking enforcement. This one side means that even if governments realize how urgent the problem of human trafficking is, and ratify all required laws, it will not be enough to develop a mechanism allowing for timely evaluation of the work of these laws and most importantly prevention of trafficking. Thus, this book proposes an alternative option for creating such a mechanism in the future by examining what affects the legislation on a global level. As it turns out, the compliance to international anti-trafficking legislation is contingent on all of the proposed macro-level drivers. Only controlling whether a country ratifies the human trafficking protocol will not be sufficient if, for instance, other root causes of trafficking are not taken into account or no effort is put into policy implementation and implementation monitoring. That is why in this book, I propose several macro-level drivers

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