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Informationen zum Autor ELZBIETA M. GOZDZIAK is the professor of research at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. She was formerly the editor of the journal International Migration and is co-editor of three books including Children and Migration: At the Crossroads of Resiliency and Vulnerability. Klappentext Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children. Zusammenfassung Trafficked children are portrayed by the media - and even by child welfare specialists - as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States! where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States! the picture is far more complex. Inhaltsverzeichnis AcknowledgmentsPrologue: Afong Means StrengthIntroduction: Researching and Writing about Child TraffickingPart IMoral Panics1 “Tidal Waves” of Trafficking2 The Old and New AbolitionistsPart II “Captured”3 Snakeheads, Coyotes, and . . . Mothers4 Not Chained to a Bed in a BrothelPart III “Rescued”5 Hidden in Plain Sight6 Jail the Offender, Protect the VictimPart IV “Restored” 7 Idealized Childhoods8 Healing the WoundedEpilogue: Everyday Struggles Notes Bibliography Index
