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Exploring The Resilience In Female Sex Trafficking Victims, Petra Torri
Exploring The Resilience In Female Sex Trafficking Victims, Petra Torri
Department of Conflict Resolution Studies Theses and Dissertations
This phenomenological study is aimed at exploring the resilience of human trafficking victims. More specifically, this research study focuses on the experience of female sex trafficking victims through the lese of practitioners who work with them. By understanding the causes that make females vulnerable to be recruited by traffickers, the way they get exploited, as well as how they are able to leave the trafficking situation, this dissertation provides an understanding about the factors that promote healing and resiliency from the trafficking experience. Feminist theory was used to illuminate existing literature on the subject, and data analysis was conducted using …