Honors Theses
Date of Award
2016
Document Type
Undergraduate Thesis
Department
Political Science
First Advisor
Matthew DiGiuseppe
Relational Format
Dissertation/Thesis
Abstract
Human trafficking represents one negative side affect of an increasingly interconnected, globalized world. What characteristics of regional trade drive bilateral human trafficking flows? Resource dependent states, or states with an economy established primarily through resource exports, interact with more industrialized states to push and pull populations into human trafficking schemes as a byproduct of economic and political linkages. The adverse conditions of resource dependence push populations into trafficking networks while traffickers and trafficking victims are drawn to economic opportunity in more stable regional trade partners. This theory is tested using ordinal logistic and OLS regression, utilizing cross sectional and time series datasets that capture both trafficking flows and state efforts to combat trafficking. The analyses support the theoretical expectation that economic linkage between resource dependent states and industrial states is positively associated with human trafficking rates for both destination and source countries. In conclusion, different causal factors for human trafficking may be at work in source and destination states.
Recommended Citation
Smith, Jacob, "Stuck in Traffic: The Effects of Regional Trade on Human Trafficking" (2016). Honors Theses. 405.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/hon_thesis/405
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