“At what price, honour?” A qualitative study into domestic trafficking of Vietnamese (girl) children for sexual exploitation
CONTENTS Acronyms & Abbreviations ................................................................................................ 3 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ................................................................................................ 4 1.0
BACKGROUND & RATIONALE ........................................................................ 5
2.0 OBJECTIVES OF RESEARCH ............................................................................. 7 2.1 Overview............................................................................................................. 7 2.2 Research Questions............................................................................................. 7 3.0 RESEARCH DESIGN & METHODOLOGY........................................................ 8 3.1 Research Philosophy........................................................................................... 8 3.2 Description of Research Team............................................................................ 8 3.3 Research Methods............................................................................................... 9 3.4 Selection of sites & participants ....................................................................... 10 3.5 Data Analysis .................................................................................................... 11 3.6 Research Constraints......................................................................................... 11 4.0 RESEARCH FINDINGS ...................................................................................... 14 4.1 Overview........................................................................................................... 14 4.2 Legal Status....................................................................................................... 15 4.3 Socio-economic Profile..................................................................................... 16 4.4 Physical, Social, Cultural Environment ............................................................ 25 4.5 Community Administration .............................................................................. 28 4.6 Presence of NGO’s & other services ................................................................ 31 4.7 Knowledge about prostitution & trafficking..................................................... 35 4.8 Perceptions of sex workers by community/public ............................................ 40 4.9 Return to family/community............................................................................. 41 5.0 RISK /VULNERABILITY FACTORS ................................................................ 43 5.1 Overview........................................................................................................... 43 5.2 Details of vulnerability factors.......................................................................... 43 5.3 Additional considerations ................................................................................. 48 5.4 “The Little Things” ........................................................................................... 49 6.0 RECOMMENDATIONS...................................................................................... 50 6.1 Summary ........................................................................................................... 50 6.2 General Intervention Framework...................................................................... 51 6.3 Community level intervention .......................................................................... 52 6.4 Organisational-level Considerations................................................................. 56 6.5 Legal Education and Protection ........................................................................ 58 6.6 Policy level considerations ............................................................................... 58 6.7 Further research suggested................................................................................ 59
May 2006, Chab Dai
Phnom Penh, CAMBODIA
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