Workshop Program Human Trafficking, International Crime and National Security: A Human Rights Perspective (February 3rd-4th, 2012, Goettingen)
Feb. 3rd, 2012 (place: Heyne-Haus, Papendiek 16, Goettingen)
Opening (moderator: Stephan Klasen, Professor of Economics, University of Goettingen)
- Welcome by Hiltraud Casper-Hehne (Vice President, University of Goettingen)
- Briefing on Project, Indexing Trafficking in Human Beings, and 3P Index by Seo-Young Cho (Faculty of Economics, University of Goettingen)
Key-note speech by Beth Simmons (Clarence Dillon Professor of International Affairs, Harvard University)
- Diffusion of Norms on Human Trafficking (background paper)
(chairperson: Eric Neumayer, Professor of Environment and Development, LSE)
Chairperson: Axel Dreher (University of Heidelberg)
- A human trafficking scorecard based on the first round of GRETA reports; validating the 3P scale (Jan van Dijk, Tilburg University)
- Policies against human trafficking (Niklas Potrafke, University of Konstanz)
- Gender representation and international compliance against human trafficking (Horace Bartilow, University of Kentucky)
Chairperson: Jan van Dijk (Tilburg University)
- Are protection policies for human trafficking victims effective? An analysis of the Italian case (Marina Mancuso, Università Cattolica of Milan)
- Inter-subjective frames and rational choice: transnational crime and the case of human trafficking (Paulette Lloyd, Indiana University)
- A policy to end child trafficking (Ira Gang, Rutgers University)
- Do immigrants make us safer? A model on crime, immigration and the labor market (Luca Corazzini/Thomas Bassetti, University of Padua)
Chairperson: Seo-Young Cho (University of Goettingen)
- Does legalized prostitution increase human trafficking? (Eric Neumayer, LSE)
- No sex please: we are British! Stigma and risky behaviors among clients of prostitutes (Maria Laura Di Tommaso, University of Turin)
- Moral reactions, legal solutions: how sex workers in China interpret rights violations (Margaret Boittin, UC Berkeley)
- A foreign affair: fertility and divorce responses of local women due to the influx of foreign brides (Elaine Liu, University of Houston)
Feb. 4th, 2012 (place: Heyne-Haus, Papendiek 16, Goettingen)
Chairperson: Eric Neumayer (LSE)
- Modeling for determinants of human trafficking (Seo-Young Cho, University of Goettingen)
- Perceived relative poverty and risk: an aspiration-based model of vulnerability (Cecilia Mo, Stanford University)
- Vulnerability and human trafficking (Melanie Khamis, Wesleyan University)
Chairperson: Jan van Dijk (Tilburg University)
- The political economy of human trafficking (Richard Frank, University of New Orleans)
- Human trafficking in Western Europe: public opinions in fifteen nations (Yuliya Tverdova, University of California Irvine)
- Measuring labor trafficking with respondent driven sampling (Brian Finch/Sheldon Zhang, San Diego State University)
Chairperson: Axel Dreher (University of Heidelberg)
- Cracking down child sex tourism in a global economy (Flaubert Mbiekop, International Development Research Centre)
- The economics of human trafficking and migration-debt contracts: theoretical and empirical evidence (Mohammad Joarder, Curtin University)
- Modern day slavery (Alexandra Rudolph, University of Heidelberg)