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An asset-based approach to vulnerability, as presented in Voices of the Poor: Can Anyone Hear Us? and World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty, provides a possible theoretical framework for understanding vulnerability to human trafficking. Case studies, field studies and narratives of human trafficking provide evidence that the assets of victims of trafficking play a significant role in human trafficking. This appears to be true both with regard to how traffickers exploit victim assets and with regard to how successful human trafficking prevention efforts are implemented. By exploring and further establishing this connection, I hope to provide evidence that a model of human trafficking acquisition incorporating elements of victim assets and the assets of communities deserves field-testing. Such field-testing will hopefully confirm the deep connection between assets and human trafficking activity and establish the necessary connections anti-trafficking activists will need to create a predictive version of the model with regard to individual vulnerability to human trafficking. Lastly, I argue that, provided the connection between human trafficking vulnerability and victim asset levels holds, an asset-based approach provides a rhetorical framework to resist policies that compromise asset levels of particularly vulnerable populations.
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- An asset-based approach to understanding and modeling vulnerability to and resilience against acquisition for the purposes of human trafficking victimization
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- Fees, Kyle Elliot (Author)
- Stancliff, Michael (Thesis advisor)
- Behl, Natasha (Committee member)
- Murphy Erfani, Julie (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
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2015
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- thesisPartial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2015
- bibliographyIncludes bibliographical references (pages 133-139)
- Field of study: Sociology
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Statement of Responsibility
by Kyle Elliot Fees