Finding Our Voices: Lived experiences in human trafficking – Table of Contents

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Table of Contents

• Executive Summary
• Background
  • What is human trafficking?
• Methods
  • Trauma-Informed Approach
  • Research Questions
• Findings
  • Section One: Sample characteristics
    • Demographic data
    • Gender, ethnicity, and racialized identity
    • Trafficking specific demographic data
    • Key findings
  • Section Two: Beginning of trafficking
    • Nature of relationship with their first trafficker and entry into trafficking
    • Positive influences at time of being trafficked
    • Challenges, barriers, and negatives influences at time of being trafficked
    • Key findings
  • Section Three: During and exiting trafficking
    • Perpetrators of violence
    • Working with others to provide sexual services
    • Support to exit and exiting as a choice
    • Accessing support
    • Most helpful services
    • Most unhelpful services
    • Awareness of available services before exiting
    • Supports that were not available but would have been helpful
    • Key findings
  • Section Four: After exiting trafficking
    • Current positive influences
    • Current and most significant challenges, barriers, and negative influences
    • Most helpful supports since exiting
    • Consensual and circumstantial sex work after exiting
    • Key findings
  • Section Five: From survivors
• Discussion
  • Minors are most at risk of being trafficked
  • There is no one cause for trafficking to occur, but an unstable or negative family life is a common factor
  • Lived experience and trauma-informed care are key supports for survivors of human trafficking
  • Financial stress is a significant pressure in the lives of survivors after exiting trafficking, which may lead to re-entering sex work and possible re-exploitation
• Conclusion
• References
• Annex A: Interview Questions
  • Section One: Sample characteristics
  • Section Two: Beginning of trafficking
  • Section Three: During and exiting trafficking
  • Section Four: After exiting trafficking
  • Section Five: From survivors
• Annex B: From Survivors
• Annex C: Demographic Data
  • Table 1: Study participants’ age at the first time of trafficking
  • Table 2: Number of traffickers by study participants
  • Table 3: Number of times study participants were trafficked
  • Table 4: Number of attempts to exit trafficking before being successful
  • Table 5: Number of years study participants were trafficked
  • Table 6: Number of study participants who exited with and without help
  • Table 7: Study participants’ age the first time accessing support
  • Table 8: Number of years participants have been accessing or have accessed supports

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