Citation

Goździak EM. Anthropol. Q. 2008; 81(4): 903-923.

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(Copyright © 2008, George Washington University Institute for Ethnographic Research)

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Abstract

The following commentary stems from a recently completed research project, supported by the National Institute of justice (NIJ), to examine the experiences of children, mostly girls, trafficked to the United States for sexual and labor exploitation and analyze their prospects for reintegration into the wider society. The cohort of possible study participants was relatively small-approximately 100 children-the project's goals lofty-to expand the knowledge base of the special service. needs of trafficked children and set forth policy and programmatic recommendation aimed at preventing child trafficking, protecting trafficked children, and prosecuting their traffickers-the challenges and dilemmas numerous, and the opportunities rare. it is the challenges and dilemmas as well as the opportunities in studying child trafficking and formulating recommendations based on empirical research that I wish to address in this essay.