ABSTRACT
This paper investigates the literature on human trafficking in Moldova. Four main categories emerged when reviewing scholarly articles published in English and Romanian from 1998 to 2018: (1) empirical research by policy-making organizations, (2) nonempirical research by policy-making organizations, (3) empirical research by independent researchers, and (4) nonempirical research by independent researchers. I found limited academic work on this topic, and even more reduced independent empirical studies, biased research toward sex trafficking and the study of women, a monopoly of original data by the International Organization for Migration, and a lack of cooperation between policy-making institutions and independent researchers.
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1 The academic, governmental, and nongovernmental organizations.
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Ludmila Bogdan
Dr. Ludmila Bogdan is a Postdoctoral fellow in Sociology at Harvard University and a Max Kade fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She works on the topics of human trafficking, international migration, and international organizations. Currently, Ludmila is writing a book A Problem No One Sees: Why Anti-trafficking Organizations Fail? and several articles on migration and human trafficking in Eastern Europe. Prior to joining Harvard, she was a visiting scholar at Georgetown University, Institute for the Study of International Migration. She received her doctoral degree in Political Science from the University of Vienna in 2017.