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QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL WORKER’S AWARENESS IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL WORKER’S AWARENESS IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING Comment by DR: Please do not use all caps – check APA format for title.
03/11/2020
Jonas Akpassa
Dr. Rice
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Walden University
Problem Statement: Comment by DR: Please provide citations for all of the material contained in this paragraph that is not your own.
The identification of victims of human trafficking has not only been neglected for a long time but has also been a global issue. Combatting the issue of victim identification and service provision has also been a significant problem due to the lack of understanding and knowledge of trafficking schemes and mechanisms. Victimized and sexually exploited women are at a higher risk during the process of this criminal activity because it is in some respect related to prostitution. Trapped by illegal status, lack of money in a foreign land, both men and women, as well as entire families, not only entrust their lives to human smugglers but face prosecution in the process becoming slaves to the traffickers who buy and sell them as goods. Social workers are one of the human services practitioners who are often at the forefront when dealing with actual victims of human trafficking in their social work practice. It is, therefore, vital for social workers to be able to identify, meddle, and campaign for this population. The driving force behind this study was to investigate social workers’ awareness in identifying the human trafficking victims in the city of Atlanta, Georgia. Comment by DR: Word choice?
Theoretical Framework Comment by DR: Please revise as this is should describe the theory you will use to conduct your study, who the theorist is, the key concepts of the theory, and how the theory relates to the study you propose.
The study made use of a system examination approach that concentrated on victims’ experiences, utilizing a survey questionnaire design with the use of transcript content and coded topics. The collection of Data originated from survivors in ten nations. Eight of whom had encountered residential bondage, three had endured sex trafficking, and one had encountered both. A large portion of the survivors detailed that they had visited a doctor while in their dealers’ control, and another worked in a medicinal services office. Every single Key Informant gave a picture of different exploited people who had gotten medicinal consideration. For residential hirelings, medicinal visits were activated by damage and respiratory or fundamental ailment, while wellbeing experts saw sex trafficking victims for explicitly transmitted contaminations and premature birth. Trafficking victims were kept from revealing their status to social insurance suppliers by dread, disgrace, language obstructions, and constrained cooperation with a restorative workforce, among different snags.
This investigation of survivors’ encounters in medicinal services settings bolsters recounted reports that US social insurance suppliers may accidentally experience human trafficking exploited people. Expanding familiarity with human trafficking, and altering practice to encourage divulgence, could improve injured individual distinguishing proof. As indicated by the shared history of social issues hypothesis, the issues had four unmistakable stages: 1) guaranteeing and publicizing of the issue, 2) an official reaction to the issue, 3) new cases developing because of disappointment with the official reaction, and 4) foundation of new establishments to manage the issue (Spector and Kitsuse, 2015). The trafficking of people is a significant issue. The Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA) is the principle authoritative exertion in the US that tends to this issue. Given social work esteems, the article gives an evaluation of the TVPA, recommends administrative arrangement, and provides reinforcement to those who serve human trafficking victims. Worldwide patterns, endeavors, and looking more into confinements in lessening trafficking. Explicit mediations by social specialists in unfortunate casualty ID and administration, an arrangement is exhibited, and taken across the outskirts every year and between two to 4,000,000 individuals are victims inside their nations (Trafficking in Persons Report, 2016, United Countries Office of Drugs and Crime, 2016). The United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime (UNODC) referred to human trafficking as one of the main crooks’ undertakings of the mid-21st century. Trafficking excessively influences women and kids (Angel, 2017). This piece aims to develop an honest and necessary approach in the investigation of the US Trafficking Victims Protection Act (TVPA), the highlight of the US government’s endeavors to battle trafficking Worldwide. Also, taking into account the patterns in human trafficking from chosen nations.
Methodology Comment by DR: Please revise to meet the requirements for this section. You are required to conduct action research using a qualitative design to gather data from social workers through focus groups.
In 2002, members of the European Union (EU) reached an agreement to cooperate in making and enforcing anti-trafficking laws (Miko, 2013). Krieg (2012) contends that efforts of the European Union have, however, been minimal due to its definition of human trafficking within a limited criminal text, much to the chagrin of the United Nations and other agencies that propose a human rights definition. Krieg warns that anti-trafficking efforts will fail if the European Union’s focus does not go beyond immigration fears in Europe. For example, Spain treats trafficking as just a criminal issue, leaving the human rights and service provision aspects to nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). The Spanish system imposes harsh punishments on perpetrators but provides little support to victims, such as resources for social integration (De Leon, 2010). Different US agencies, including local law enforcement, the CIA, FBI, Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Human Smuggling/Trafficking Unit, the Department of Justice, and the State Department, helped to enact anti-trafficking laws and statutes (Torg, 2016). Initiatives included the FBI’s ‘Innocence Lost,’ which targets child prostitution, and ICE’s ‘Operation Predator,’ with its’ purpose to protect children from international predators (Torg, 2016). Also, creating a Worker’s Exploitation Task Force and a database on human trafficking worldwide. Initiatives such as the involvement of multiple Task Force to Monitor and Combat Trafficking in Persons were made use of to promote interagency collaboration (Miko, 2013).
Recognizing the identification of human trafficking is the largest hurdle in accessing relief under the TVPA (Angel, 2017). Since 2000, the approximate number of victims trafficked into the US has been decreased from 50,000 persons annually to roughly 17,000 (Siskin, 2018). While this diminishing number may suggest exaggeration of the original estimate or that the penalties may have reduced the problem, it also indicates an increase in the proportion of unidentified victims. According to the US State Department, only 2000 out of 45,000 available T-Visas were given to victims and their families between the year 2000 and January of 2008 (US Department of State, 2019). Social workers should be attentive to the thousands of unidentified victims that we suspect need care and protection when extending services. The identification of victims is one of the most challenging tasks in human trafficking intervention. According to (Kappelhoff, 2018), the identification of most trafficking cases was by a member of a community service organization.
Since these agents are not the only ones who come into contact with victims, greater emphasis should be placing community education about trafficking, including its prevalence, its sub-types, potential warning signs, rights of victims, and available resources. While service organizations may administer the implementation of community awareness, minor changes should be made by the TVPA to extend and provide funding for such programs. (Kotrla, 2015) suggested screening records in agencies where victims are likely to be encountered. A useful resource is the Administration for Children and Families’ Campaign to Rescue and Restore Victims of Human trafficking. The site has toolkits that include screening questions for social service, health care, and law enforcement professionals that social workers can incorporate into their intake and assessment forms. The provision of effective services to identified victims requires several changes. A basic step is to ensure that victims are first-served, and only after that asked to participate in prosecution (Angel, 2017). Social service agencies can collaborate with agencies offering legal services to help law enforcement officers to prosecute trafficking. Our involvement on the ground with victims can be of critical importance in ensuring the successful prosecution of traffickers. Important elements in evaluating social service delivery systems are accessibility and eligibility criteria (Chambers and Wedel, 2019). Services to victims should be made available from the moment of the identification to the point they are self-sufficient and in good psychological and physical health. A significant test for social laborers is enough to address the multidimensional parts of neediness among women and young ladies in creating nations. This assignment is presently significantly all the more testing considering the ongoing worldwide downturn. For instance, it will expand financial variations leading to expanded dealings? In what manner will residents and administrators in getting nations outline dealing inside the more extensive social and monetary settings? Will the current government furthermore, state spending reductions encroach on hostile to dealing endeavors? It is essential to address what are now and then called ‘push variables’ (for example, neediness, joblessness, numbness) in more unfortunate beginning nations that make it helpful for dealers to select unfortunate casualties. Experts engaged with universal practice and arrangement backing should address these factors. Regularly, existing endeavors address push factors, especially assuming acceptance of such endeavors with an emphasis on avoidance (Hodge, 2018).
REFERENCES Comment by DR: Not capitalized.
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Angel, C. (2017) ‘Immigration Relief for Human Trafficking Victims: Focusing the Lens on the Human Rights of Victims’, University of Maryland Law Journal of Race, Religion, Gender & Class 7(1): 23–36.
Chambers, D. and K. Wedel (2019) Social Policy and Social Programs. Boston, MA: Pearson Education, Inc.
Hodge, D.R. (2018) ‘Sexual Trafficking in the United States: A Domestic Problem with Transnational Dimensions’, Social Work 53(2): 143–52.
Kotrla, K. (2015) ‘Domestic Minor Sex Trafficking in the United States’, Social Work 55(2): 181–7. Krieg, S.H. (2009)
Spector, M. and J. Kitsuse (2015) ‘Social Problems: A Re-formulation’, Social Problems 21(2): 146–59.
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QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL WORKER’S AWARENESS IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS OF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
03/11/2020
Jonas Akpassa
Dr. Rice
Premise
Walden University
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QUALITATIVE STUDY OF SOCIAL WORKER’S AWARENESS IN IDENTIFYING VICTIMS OF
HUMAN TRAFFICKING
03/11/2020
Jonas Akpassa
Dr. Rice
Premise
Walden University