HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN SECURITY: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

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1. INTRODUCTION
2. EMERGENCE OF HUMAN SECURITY IN THE SECURITY DISCOURSE
3. GALTUNG’S THEORY OF VIOLENCE AND HUMAN SECURITY
4. GENDER, VIOLENCE AND HUMAN SECURITY: A FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE
5. HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN SECURITY
6. HUMAN TRAFFICKING AS A PROBLEM OF HUMAN SECURITY
7. CONCLUDING REMARKS

HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND HUMAN SECURITY: A GENDER PERSPECTIVE

Author: M. Bashir Uddin

DOI Link: https://www.doi.org/10.56888/BIISSj2009v30n4a4

ABSTRACT

One may come across various approaches such as illegal migration, organized crime, prostitution/sex work and human rights violation to examine the human trafficking issue. Of these, there is much debate about which approach can best explain this problem. The root causes of, and violence associated with, human trafficking are yet to be adequately addressed. A study of human security from a gender perspective can significantly address human trafficking, particularly, trafficking in women and children. This paper argues that different dimensions of violence, which are gendered, are produced and reproduced through a violence triangle of direct, structural and cultural violence. These are the drivers of human insecurities and hence human trafficking. How, why and by whom violence occurs and how people become vulnerable to trafficking are some questions that this paper addresses. Someargue that gendered violence is a biological construction in that men are physically stronger and more prone to violence than women. In contrast, others, particularly feminists, claim that it is a socialconstruction. This paper considers gendered violence as social construction and argues that a gendered perspective of violence can offer suggestions for how better human security can be achieved through negation of the violence triangle.

BANGLADESH INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL AND STRATEGIC STUDIES

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