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Millionova, Pavlina (2013)

Defining trafficking and labour exploitation in the context of trafficking prevention and protection services in the Czech Republic, 1998-2012

Master thesis | History (MA)

Following the end of the Cold War the post-communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe experienced numerous rapid changes. The transition concerned also the sphere of migration. This thesis focuses on trafficking in human beings and labour exploitation of migrant workers as they gradually caught public attention in the Czech Republic in late 1990s. It researches how and why did the Czech NGOs’ approach towards trafficking change between 1998 and 2012. It focuses on the problematic understanding and punishability of labour exploitation within and outside the phenomenon of trafficking. It follows the development of trafficking in the Czech Republic after the end of Cold War and shows the interaction between governmental and nongovernmental approaches towards trafficking, labour exploitation and human rights violations of migrant workers.

Trafficking

Labour exploitation

Migrant workers

Czech Republic

NGOs

Author

Millionova, Pavlina

Faculty

Faculty of Humanities

Specialisation

Migration and Global Interdependence

Supervisors

Schrover, Marlou

ECTS Credits

30

Language

en