SPP at CEU
Elżbieta Goździak on Trafficked Children in the US
Human trafficking continues to capture the imagination of the global public. Gut wrenching narratives about girls kept as sexual slaves and sold into domestic servitude appear on front pages of newspapers, in academic journals, and in books. Public discourse emphasizes the particular vulnerability of trafficked children, related to bio-physiological, social, behavioral, and cognitive phases of the maturation process and underscores the necessity to act in the children's best interest. Trafficked children are always portrayed as hapless victims forced into the trafficking situation and hardly ever as actors with a great deal of volition participating in the decision to migrate.
This lecture explores the coexistence of agency and vulnerability and the interplay of trauma and resiliency in survivors of child trafficking.
George Soros Visiting Chair Elżbieta M. Goździak is Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University.
More about the George Soros Visiting Chair program: spp.ceu.edu/gs-chair
Photo by Peter Rakossy.
Elżbieta Goździak on Trafficked Children in the US
Human trafficking continues to capture the imagination of the global public. Gut wrenching narratives about girls kept as sexual slaves and sold into domestic servitude appear on front pages of newspapers, in academic journals, and in books. Public discourse emphasizes the particular vulnerability of trafficked children, related to bio-physiological, social, behavioral, and cognitive phases of the maturation process and underscores the necessity to act in the children's best interest. Trafficked children are always portrayed as hapless victims forced into the trafficking situation and hardly ever as actors with a great deal of volition participating in the decision to migrate.
This lecture explores the coexistence of agency and vulnerability and the interplay of trauma and resiliency in survivors of child trafficking.
George Soros Visiting Chair Elżbieta M. Goździak is Research Professor at the Institute for the Study of International Migration (ISIM) at Georgetown University.
More about the George Soros Visiting Chair program: spp.ceu.edu/gs-chair
Photo by Peter Rakossy.