Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative (ASHTI)
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The Anti-Slavery and Human Trafficking Initiative (ASHTI) is led by a working group of KU faculty, staff, and students that are engaged in scholarship and advocacy related to addressing contemporary slavery and human trafficking. This site is to become an online repository of KU research and data related to human trafficking domestically and internationally.
Recent Submissions
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‘Now More Than Ever, Survivors Need Us’: Essential labouring and increased precarity during COVID-19
(Global Alliance Against Traffic in Women (GAATW), 2023-09-29)During the earliest waves of the COVID-19 pandemic, much media and public discourse focused on the effects of increasing precarity on already vulnerable populations. As in-person work added a layer of viral risk and ... -
Understanding Risk and Prevention in Midwestern Antitrafficking Efforts: Service Providers' Perspectives
(Reading Room, 2020-06-22)Since the 2000 passage of both the Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) and the U.N.’s Palermo Protocols, human trafficking has gained a notable global presence as a human rights concern. Community organizations, ... -
Aligned Across Difference: Structural Injustice, Sex Work, and Human Trafficking
(Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017)Feminist scholars and activists engage in meaningful, contentious debates about the relationships among sex, gender, power, and society. One of the most recent iterations of these arguments reinscribes the pleasure of sex ... -
Human Trafficking in the Midwest: Service Providers’ Perspectives on Sex and Labor Trafficking
(Anti, 2017-04)This report covers the findings of ASHTI’s two-state survey to gather information from service providers working with vulnerable persons in the Midwest. Based on previous ASHTI interviews, the research team created a survey ... -
Human Trafficking Indentification and Service Provision in the Medical and Social Service Sectors
(Harvard School of Public Health, 2016-06)The medical sector presents a unique opportunity for identification and service to victims of human trafficking. In this article, we describe local and site-specific efforts to develop an intervention tool to be used in ... -
Queering the Support for Trafficked Persons: LGBTQ Communities and Human Trafficking in the Heartland
(Cogitatio, 2015-02-23)Human trafficking justice centers on the “Three Ps” model of prevention, protection, and prosecution. While protection and prosecution efforts have been moderately successful, prevention remains elusive, as “upstream” ... -
Policy Responses to Human Trafficking in Southern Africa: Domesticating International Norms
(Springer Verlag, 2014)Human trafficking is increasingly recognized as an outcome of economic insecurity, gender inequality, and conflict, all significant factors in the region of southern Africa. This paper examines policy responses to human ...
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