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Exploring the occupational injustices of human trafficking

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Pages 394-407 | Accepted 14 Aug 2018, Published online: 13 Sep 2018
 

ABSTRACT

Human trafficking is a complex global issue described as modern day slavery, and people who are trafficked can experience severe trauma with long term consequences impacting their health and well-being. Drawing on an occupational perspective, we discuss four case studies from the literature to examine occupational marginalisation, deprivation, imbalance, and alienation. Our analysis shows that across different types of exploitation, in diverse geographical locations, forced occupation and a lack of meaningful occupation, both have a negative impact on health. In addition, we argue that the individual experiences of exploitation reflect collective injustices. Human trafficking is therefore a violation of individual occupational rights, and a social and political issue of occupational injustice. Attention on human trafficking from an occupational perspective appears to have been absent from the occupational science literature.

La trata de personas representa un problema global complejo que se describe como esclavitud moderna. Quienes son víctimas de trata pueden experimentar traumas graves, con consecuencias a largo plazo que afectan su salud y bienestar. Partiendo de una perspectiva ocupacional, el presente artículo analiza cuatro estudios de caso de la literatura para examinar la marginación, la privación, el desequilibrio y la alienación ocupacionales. Dicho análisis revela que, a través de diferentes tipos de explotación, en diversas ubicaciones geográficas, tanto la ocupación forzada como la falta de una ocupación significativa tienen un impacto negativo en la salud. Además, el artículo sostiene que las experiencias individuales de explotación reflejan injusticias colectivas. La trata de personas es, por lo tanto, una violación a los derechos profesionales individuales y un problema social y político de injusticia ocupacional. En la literatura sobre ciencia ocupacional no parece que la trata de personas haya sido investigada desde una perspectiva ocupacional.

人口贩运是一个复杂的全球性问题,被称为现代奴隶制。被贩运的人会经历严重的创伤,并长期影响他们的健康和福祉。从生活活动的角度,我们讨论了文献中的四个案例研究,以考察生活活动边缘化、剥夺、失衡和异化。我们的分析表明,在不同类型的剥削中,在不同的地理位置,强迫的生活活动和缺乏有意义的生活活动,都对健康产生了负面影响。此外,我们认为,个人剥削经历反映了集体的不公正。因此,人口贩运是对个人生活活动权利的侵犯,也是生活活动不公正的社会和政治问题。生活活动科学文献似乎没有从生活活动角度关注人口贩运问题。

Acknowledgement

The authors acknowledge the anonymous Journal of Occupational Science reviewers for their supportive feedback. Their comments and suggestions contributed to the quality of this paper.

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