Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Epigraph
- 1 Contexts and Complexities
- 2 Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain
- 3 The Application of International Legislation: Is the Federalisation of Anti-trafficking Legislation in Europe Working for Trafficking Victims?
- 4 International and European Standards in Relation to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking
- 5 Child Protection for Child Trafficking Victims
- 6 Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 7 Does It Happen Here?
- 8 Promoting Psychological Recovery in Victims of Human Trafficking
- 9 ‘We Cannot Collect Comprehensive Information on All of These Changes’: The Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating Reintegration Efforts for Separated Children
- 10 Policing Forced Marriages Among Pakistanis in the United Kingdom
- 11 Criminalising Victims of Human Trafficking: State Responses and Punitive Practices
- 12 Root Causes, Transnational Mobility and Formations of Patriarchy in the Sex Trafficking of Women
- 13 The New Raw Resources Passing Through the Shadows
- 14 Human Trafficking: Capital Exploitation and the Accursed Share
- Postscript
- Index
6 - Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2016
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- List of Contributors
- Epigraph
- 1 Contexts and Complexities
- 2 Productive Ignorance: Assessing Public Understanding of Human Trafficking in Ukraine, Hungary and Great Britain
- 3 The Application of International Legislation: Is the Federalisation of Anti-trafficking Legislation in Europe Working for Trafficking Victims?
- 4 International and European Standards in Relation to Victims and Survivors of Human Trafficking
- 5 Child Protection for Child Trafficking Victims
- 6 Responding to Victims of Human Trafficking: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
- 7 Does It Happen Here?
- 8 Promoting Psychological Recovery in Victims of Human Trafficking
- 9 ‘We Cannot Collect Comprehensive Information on All of These Changes’: The Challenges of Monitoring and Evaluating Reintegration Efforts for Separated Children
- 10 Policing Forced Marriages Among Pakistanis in the United Kingdom
- 11 Criminalising Victims of Human Trafficking: State Responses and Punitive Practices
- 12 Root Causes, Transnational Mobility and Formations of Patriarchy in the Sex Trafficking of Women
- 13 The New Raw Resources Passing Through the Shadows
- 14 Human Trafficking: Capital Exploitation and the Accursed Share
- Postscript
- Index
Summary
One of the key models of care and support for victims of human trafficking is the need for comprehensive and coordinated services. In this chapter I will share my experiences in dealing with over 200 victims of trafficking, identifying that this coordination has been far from the case in practice.
As Manager of the Refugee and Asylum Seeker Consortium in Scotland, I dealt with a number of human trafficking victims. Following this, I was appointed Trafficking Services Team Leader in Scotland for Migrant Help. The Trafficking Awareness Raising Alliance (TARA) and Migrant Help are the two agencies in Scotland funded by the Scottish Government to accommodate and support victims of human trafficking. TARA are funded to support female victims of sexual exploitation, and Migrant Help receives financial support to assist male and female victims of labour exploitation, male and female victims of domestic servitude, and male victims of sexual exploitation.
All the cases referred to in this chapter, and the operations mentioned, took place between 2009 and 2012. I am aware practice and procedures are continually developing, however, documenting some of the issues will highlight problems than can arise without good collaboration. The majority of cases with which I was involved related to labour exploitation. These comprised various types of exploitation, including cockle picking, selling DVDs and CDs in bars, distributing collection bags for clothing. In addition, there was the more common fruit and vegetable picking, labouring, etc. However, there were also a sizeable number of domestic servitude and sexual exploitation cases, including female victims. I also dealt with organ transplant and forced marriage victims.
In my considerable experience, the approach to the recovery of victims has been haphazard and frequently lacked any organisation, with participants from various agencies being unclear as to their role and to the overall objectives of the ‘operation’. Often there are competing priorities among the agencies involved and a lack of any strategic overview.
This chapter will look at models of good practice, giving specific examples, examine interventions that have been less than successful, and look at areas where promising actions were hindered by poor strategic coordination.
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- Human TraffickingThe Complexities of Exploitation, pp. 103 - 112Publisher: Edinburgh University PressPrint publication year: 2016