Date of Award
Summer 8-2013
Degree Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A.
Degree Program
Political Science
Department
Political Science
Major Professor
Michael Huelshoff
Second Advisor
Christine Day
Third Advisor
Richard Frank
Abstract
This thesis employs the most recent and best available data on human trafficking, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime’s Trafficking in Persons Global Report 2006, as well as nine independent variables to determine what their effects are on countries’ volumes of human trafficking outflows. By completing a cross-sectional analysis via an OLS regression, I found statistically significant support for three factors that I hypothesize lead to greater outflows of human trafficking. My findings suggest that countries that are less corrupt, have more seats in parliament held by women, and score higher on Cho, Dreher, and Neumayer’s Anti-Trafficking Policy Index are less likely to experience high outflows of human trafficking. Additionally, while they narrowly avoid statistical significance, this study also suggests that states that have a legal stance on prostitution and have fewer women employed in the non-agricultural sector experience less human trafficking outflows.
Recommended Citation
White, Robyn L., "Invisible Women: Examining the Political, Economic, Cultural, and Social Factors that lead to Human Trafficking and Sex Slavery of Young Girls and Women" (2013). University of New Orleans Theses and Dissertations. 1708.
https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1708
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