Annex A: Interview Questions
Section One: Sample characteristics
- Gender
- Ethnicity
- How many traffickers did you have?
- How many times were you trafficked?
- What was your age at the time of first being trafficked?
- How long did trafficking last before you successfully exited?
- How many times did you attempt to exit before successfully exiting?
- How old were you when you first began accessing support?
- How many years did you or have you been accessing support?
Section Two: Beginning of trafficking
- How did you become involved in human trafficking?
- What was the nature of your relationship with your trafficker?
- What were the positive influences in your life during that time?
- What were the challenges/barriers/negative influences in your life?
Section Three: During and exiting trafficking
- In cases involving violence, who perpetrated the violence?
- Did you ever work together with others providing sexual services? Was it a choice and, if so, why?
- Did you exit with support or own your own?
- Do you feel that exiting was your choice?
- What supports were you aware of before exiting?
- At what point in your life did you access or try to access these supports (for example, before exiting, when exiting, or after)? If after, how long after?
- Were the supports that you accessed helpful?
- What supports did you find were not helpful?
- What supports would you have found helpful that were not available?
Section Four: After exiting trafficking
- What are the current positive influences in your life?
- What are the current challenges/barriers/negative influences in your life?
- Since exiting, what are the most significant challenges you face?
- What have been the most helpful support and/or resources since exiting?
- Did you provide any consensual sexual services after exiting?
- Are you still involved in consensual sex work? Is this something you want to still do?
Section Five: From survivors
- Is there anything you would like to ask me (the interviewer), or is there other information that you would like to share?
- What would you tell the politicians/the bureaucrats about your experience
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