{"id":1188,"date":"2014-10-17T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-10-17T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/%20rroma.org\/17-10-2014-people-in-need-slovakia-segregated-rroma-particularly-affected-by-human-trafficking\/"},"modified":"2022-08-21T07:33:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-21T06:33:16","slug":"17-10-2014-people-in-need-slovakia-segregated-rroma-particularly-affected-by-human-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rroma.org\/fr\/17-10-2014-people-in-need-slovakia-segregated-rroma-particularly-affected-by-human-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"17.10.2014 People in Need Slovakia: segregated Rroma particularly affected by human trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Slovak Spectator \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t(2014) reports on a new study by the Slovak organization \u201cPeople in Need \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSlovakia\u201d. According to the research of the organisation, segregated Rroma in \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSlovakia, aged between 16 and 25 as well as 25 and 35 years are particularly \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\taffected by human trafficking for forced labour, organised begging and forced \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tprostitution: \u201cAccording to Timea \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStr\u00e1nska, head of the organisation, Roma are abused, especially for forced labour, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmostly in countries like Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Germany. \u201cIn \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tGreat Britain this concerns especially cities like Peterborough, Sheffield, Leicester, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tDerby and Birmingham,\u201d Str\u00e1nska said, as quoted by the TASR newswire. Another \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\trevelation shows that victims of human trafficking are lured while in the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsettlements after meeting with traffickers. \u201cOften it also happens that the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvictim is recruited by their distance relatives or someone from their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsurroundings,\u201d Str\u00e1nska added. Except for forced labour, the human trafficking \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvictims are also abused for prostitution and begging. In cases of children, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tthere are mostly cases when young Roma girls are forced to be prostitutes.\u201d<\/em> \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe characteristics of transnational operating trafficker networks, as \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpresented here, are being questionned by social science research. Their \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\texistence itself is not denied but their manifestation, their numbers, \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tomnipotence, and the motivations attributed to them have to be questioned. Ideological \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tfallacies are brought into connection or even equated with ethnic groups such \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tas the Rroma in this context. Regarding the de facto human trafficking, social \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tscience studies convey a more complex notion of the subject. These studies \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tpoint out the analysis of crimes such as incitement to beg and steal and forced \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmigration for indentured labour is often permeated by various definitions and \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tmorals in and assessment by authorities and aid organizations, who don\u2019t appropriately \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tconsider the perspective and motivations of migrating persons, and instead \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tforce on them their own ideas about organised begging, criminal networks or human \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\ttrafficking. Structural differences of the societies involved and resulting \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\treasons for a migration are given too little consideration, as well as the \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tagency of migrants themselves (compare Augustin 2007, Oude Breuil et al 2011, Tabin et al 2012). <\/p>\n