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Population geography I

Human trafficking

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ID11949751
AuthorsDarren Smith (0000-0003-0775-1221, Loughborough University, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume42
Issue2
Pages297-308
Publication date2017-01-17
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueProgress in Human Geography (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0309-1325 • E-ISSN: 1477-0288
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0309132516685196
OpenAlexW2573064448
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited68

This first report explores how understandings of human trafficking have progressed within population geography. Exemplified by studies of exploitative labour migration, population geography has made implicit contributions by stressing the value of a geographic perspective on the webs of interconnections and links between different places and trafficking. In addition, dominant ideas of linear trafficking processes have been disrupted, via evidencing the informal involvement of families in the phases of recruitment, transportation, and control. I argue that a more encompassing, interdisciplinary tenet could be woven into population studies of trafficking, by more explicitly engaging with social science debates. Embedding the legal, global definition of trafficking into wider studies of migration is paramount for this direction of travel. There is also merit in population geography advancing understandings by adopting holistic lenses of enquiry, connecting-up with (sub-)disciplinary geographic studies of migration and trafficking in the Global South and Global North. Studies of trafficking provide a potentially fruitful terrain for population geography to deliver multidisciplinary, impactful research of a key global challenge, to inform policies to prevent and mitigate the ills of trafficking, and progress conceptual and theoretical understandings of trafficking

Critical geography · Cultural geography · Development geography · Discipline · Economic geography · Geography · Historical geography · Human geography · Multidisciplinary approach · Political science · Population · Regional science · Social science · Sociology · Time geography · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Sex work and related issues

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Unique citing works17
Citations per year2,13
Citation span2018 - 2025 (8)
Citation velocityrecent
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 17

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