Conclusions

This small-scale, qualitative research based on a focus group of rehabilitated trafficking victims in the Ukraine, an expert interview there and an expert interview in Thailand generated information that helps corroborate the current literature on how to prevent trafficking and re-trafficking. Although these interviews cannot be said to provide a definite answer as to why women fall prey to human trafficking, they can offer findings that deserve further investigation, especially within Ukraine.

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Results: presentation and discussion

This section first looks at the expert interviews separately, and this is followed by a presentation of findings from the focus group. Afterwards, there is a look at how the results from the expert interviews compares with those from the Ukraine focus group.

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Thailand and Ukraine

The United States Department of State (U.S. Dept. of State) produces a Trafficking in Persons Report on a yearly basis and puts countries around the world in four categories depending on a government’s compliance with the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s (TVPA's) minimum requirements; in 2010, Thailand fell from Tier 2 (U.S. Dept. of State, 2009) to Tier 2 Watch List, just one tier above the lowest, for not fully complying with the TVPA's minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking (U.S. Dept. of State, 2010).

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Global policies

In December 2000, more than 80 countries adopted the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, which included the first-ever legal definition of trafficking: “the buying, selling, and movement of persons within or between countries through a range of means such as coercion and deception, for the express purpose of exploiting them” (Gallagher, 2006:142).

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