A CONCEPTUAL ANALYSIS OF WOMEN TRAFFICKING AND ITS ORIGIN TYPOLOGY

Authors

  • Arunkumar Acharya Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.29092/uacm.v6i12.145

Keywords:

Women trafficking, illegal migration, smuggling, type of movement

Abstract

Recently, migration with trafficking of women has become an important social issue for two reasons: Firstly, because it puts women into the migratory wave, and secondly, because of the violence faced by immigrant woman at the place of destination. Every day thousands of women worldwide are trafficked into cities and other countries with false promises and coercion, basically for the purpose of sexual exploi- Andamios 377 tation. Although trafficking of women is progressively drawing attention worldwide, its lack of conceptual definition makes it hard to distinguish between illegal migration and trafficking. So, the main objective of this study is to develop a clear conceptual definition of women trafficking and to construct a typology considering the patterns of migration from the place of origin to destination.

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Author Biography

Arunkumar Acharya, Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León

Es Profesor-Investigador del Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales, de la Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, Monterrey. Es doctor en Antropología por la Universi- dad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), y tiene maestrías en Demografía por el International Institute of Population Studies, Mumbai, India y en Geografía por la Utkal University, India. Es miembro del Sistema Nacional de Investigadores (SNI)-CONACYT. El Dr. Acharya ha publicado 23 artículos científicos en revistas nacionales e internacionales y también ha presentado sus investigaciones en varios congresos nacionales e internacionales.

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2009-08-16

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