Project Workshop

• Key-note: Beth Simmons (Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University), Diffusion of Norms on Human Trafficking (background paper).

• Session 1: Anti-trafficking Policy
  • A human trafficking scorecard based on the first round of GRETA reports; validating the 3P scale (Jan van Dijk, Tilburg University)
  • Policies against human trafficking (Niklas Potrafke, University of Konstanz)
  • Gender representation and international compliance against human trafficking (Horace Bartilow, University of Kentucky)
     
• Session 2: Further Policy Issues in Combating Human Trafficking
  • Are protection policies for human trafficking victims effective? An analysis of the Italian case (Marina Mancuso, Università Cattolica of Milan)
  • Inter-subjective frames and rational choice: transnational crime and the case of human trafficking (Paulette Lloyd, Indiana University)
  • A policy to end child trafficking (Ira Gang, Rutgers University)
  • Do immigrants make us safer? A model on crime, immigration and the labor market (Luca Corazzini/Thomas Bassetti, University of Padua)
     
• Session 3: Women, Prostitution, and Human Trafficking
  • Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking? (Eric Neumayer, LSE)
  • No sex please: we are British! Stigma and risky behaviors among clients of prostitutes (Maria Laura Di Tommaso, University of Turin)
  • Moral reactions, legal solutions: how sex workers in China interpret rights violations (Margaret Boittin, UC Berkeley)
  • A foreign affair: fertility and divorce responses of local women due to the influx of foreign brides (Elaine Liu, University of Houston)

2 day: Feb. 4th, 2012

• Session 4: Push and Pull Factors of Human Trafficking
  • Modeling for determinants of human trafficking (Seo-Young Cho, University of Goettingen)
  • Perceived relative poverty and risk: an aspiration-based model of vulnerability (Cecilia Mo, Stanford University)
  • Vulnerability and human trafficking (Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University)

• Session 5: Political Economy of Human Trafficking
  • The political economy of human trafficking (Richard Frank, University of New Orleans)
  • Human trafficking in Western Europe: public opinions in fifteen nations (Yuliya Tverdova, University of California Irvine)
  • Measuring labor trafficking with respondent driven sampling (Brian Finch/Sheldon Zhang, San Diego State University)

• Session 6: Human Trafficking and Globalization
  • Cracking down child sex tourism in a global economy (Flaubert Mbiekop, International Development Research Centre)
  • The economics of human trafficking and migration-debt contracts: theoretical and empirical evidence (Mohammad Joarder, Curtin University)
  • Modern day slavery (Alexandra Rudolph, University of Heidelberg)