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Research Valorisation
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1. De Felice, D., Lombardo, E., & Salerno, G. (2018, Oral Presentation). Child victims of HT: A cross country studies of the identification practices. ESA Research Network 27 (RN27), Mid-Term Conference Catania, Catania, Italy, 4-6 October 2018.
Abstract. The last European data (CE 2016) on the HT indicates 15,846 confirmed or suspected victims, the 15 percent of these are represented by minors. The data underestimates the true proportions of HT and confirms instead that it is a phenomenon that affects all global circuits (UN 2016) and has a transactional configuration that overcomes the obsolete distinction between home countries, transit or destination. In this view of difficult traceability we can therefore wonder about key elements and responses in a Mediterranean territory geographically exposed to flows from Africa, like Italy, and in an internal (EU) border territory, like France. These are different routes but in both the link between migration and exploitation is a topical issue, especially in the perception of the type of exploitation connected to the increase in flows, especially child on the move.
It is a priority in Europe to address the trafficking issue and specifically the children trafficking, as an extremely vulnerable category, because the complexity of the event not require the exclusive study of the crime from criminal proceedings perspective (author, conduct, purpose, victim). It is also necessary to examine the interweaving between different dimensions that concern the welfare system, then the institutional and social actors roles involved in assistance and protection and the progressive emerge of attempts at governance in response to instances for integration, security, coordination and cooperation. In this perspective the attention for young victims of HT, for the recognition and defense of their rights, seems to be projected into a redefinition of the citizenship contents, at least of those contents related to the logic of borders. The contribution aims to explore with an interdisciplinary approach the HT manifestation, in the dynamics of recruitment and exploitation, with a focus on identification phase of child victims as a precondition of access to the socio-institutional possible solutions within a still stratified and fragmented regulation. The comparative study has the objective of understands the specific professional strategies about HT emersion process in two countries, intercepting good practices and developing a mapping encouraging coordination among the different local actors.
2. De Felice, D. (2018, Poster Presentation). Legal contexts, citizenship and HT investigation. Research Committee of Sociology of Law Annual Meeting, Lisbon, Portugal, 10-13 September 2018.
Abstract. Over 140 000 victims at any one time are involved in Human trafficking (HT) in Western and Central Europe - including a large number of women (61%) and children (20%) (United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime, 2012). The latter may then be identified as victims in countries of transit, for example Italy, or of destination, like France (OSCE, 2011, p.59; UNODC, 2006). National policies of these countries have thus made the fight against HT a priority. How then identify young HT victims within young migrants? The issue of HT of children is part of the reflections on the globalized world, where the reduction of border controls and the great migration in Western countries have encouraged this form of modern slavery. Above all is important to protect and promote the rights of the children victims and also are required collaboration with the local communities to improve life quality and to reduce social conflicts, sharing of responsibility between the actors, integrate and multidisciplinary approach in the relation between local context and national context and between institutions and civil society in both countries. Our research project forms part of the international scientific community’s effort to improve our understanding of specific interview contexts with the main objective to positively influence future professional practices. In this project, the goal is to do a critical comparative study between Italy and France of the ways countries recognize and protect legal relationships of juveniles suspected to be victims of human trafficking. The project proposes analyzing the institutional and cultural background in Italy and in France in the belief that there are constitutive elements of the phenomenon and of the investigation so as to provide an invariable investigation instrument able to incorporate elements from different contexts. This is even more important in a contemporary context characterized by the sociocultural consequences of globalization erode the traditional boundaries of law and legal systems, hybridize legal cultures and create new conditions for legal regulation which gives the shape of fundamental rights and citizenship. The competencies of Sociology of law as an interdisciplinary space open to theoretical and methodological innovation, allow us to develop the analysis broadening the horizon of understanding of some specific aspects of the phenomenon of young HT in response to social, political and legal changes.
3. Verkampt, F. (2018, Keynote Address). Child-victims' rights at the sharp end: Taking up the challenges raised by human trafficking investigations, International Congress of Applied Psychology, Montreal, Canada, 26-30 June.
Abstract: According to the United Nations (2014), “international human rights law imposes important and additional responsibilities on States when it comes to identifying child victims of trafficking as well as to ensuring their immediate and longer-term safety and well-being” (p.7). If human trafficking (HT) is a crime affecting the citizens of all regions of the world, migrant foreign children and adolescents arriving in Europe are clearly at high risk of exploitation by human traffickers. To ensure that the basic rights of the young victims of trafficking are respected, the first duty of these countries is to identify these victims. Victims form the cornerstone of the fight against HT. Social workers and investigators are in the front lines of those coming into contact with HT victims and who can contribute to their identification. They are thus trained to conduct interviews with children in order to collect information about their current situation, their route and any criminal activities they have been victim of. However, the elicitation of vital information from the victims is challenging when traumatic experiences have complex and severe consequences on retrieval processes. This is one reason why HT is still one of the most difficult crimes to investigate. In this talk, I will review the recent research done on investigative interviews with young trafficked victims. Firstly, I will present the specificities of child and adolescent trafficked victims and the constraints these might have on the interview process. Secondly, the major difficulties observed during victims’ interviews will be reviewed and addressed within the perspective of contemporary memory research (Bookbinder, & Brainerd, 2016; Reyna, Corbin, Weldon, & Brainerd, 2016). Finally, I will discuss how young victims’ testimony might be improved.
4. De Felice D., Lombardo E., & Salerno G. (2019). La tratta di esseri umani minorenni. Quadro normativo e percorsi di cittadinanza, in Sociologia del diritto, 1, 53-84. DOI: 10.3280/SD2019-001003
Abstract. Human trafficking is a phenomenon characterised by a transnational dimension that currently exceeds the traditional distinction among countries of origin, transit or destination. In this essay, the authors wonder about the main aspects of child trafficking of minors, as an extremely vulnerable category, in the Italian territory, which is exposed to migratory flows due to its geographic location. The aim of this article is to highlight the heuristic potential of an interdisciplinary approach to the issue, starting from a focus on both the recognition of vulnerability and the best interest of the child as a precondition of inclusion and openness to possible paths of citizenship.
5. De Felice D., Lombardo E., & Salerno G. (2019). La tratta dei minori. Il quadro normativo. In S. Greco & G. Tumminelli (Eds.), Migrazioni in Sicilia 2018. Milano: Mimesis.
Abstract.The contribution traces the main steps of legislative production on the issue of trafficking in human beings, with particular attention to child victims and migrants
6. De Felice D. (2019). Il contrasto alla tratta di minorenni. Il sistema di coordinamento multi-agenzia a Catania. In S. Greco & G. Tumminelli (Eds.), Migrazioni in Sicilia 2018. Milano: Mimesis.
Abstract. The contribution reconstructs the system of contrast to the trafficking of minors that has been activated in eastern Sicily, putting together forms of synergistic collaboration between institutional actors and social actors of the territory.
Pictures of our work meetings
Work meeting in Toulouse (24-26 January, 2018)
Work meeting in Catania (18-22 October, 2018)
Work meeting in Toulouse (09-12 July, 2019)