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Combating Human Trafficking: Transnational Advocacy Networks between Thailand and the United States.
Combating Human Trafficking: Transnational Advocacy Networks between Thailand and the United States.
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Conference Papers -- International Studies Association . 2008 Annual Meeting, p1-32. 32p. 2 Diagrams. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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Abstract
- Why and how did the issue of human trafficking make its way to the top of the international agenda, and at the top of the national agendas of the United States and Thailand, two important countries in the contemporary global movement to combat trafficking? What happened when it got to the top? Employing a constructivist theoretical framework, I will focus on the response to the issue of trafficking by a variety of political actors â" activists, government officials, advocates, and academics; and organizations and agencies â" nongovernmental organizations, international organizations, and government ministries. Constructivism proposes that principled ideas matter, and that nonstate actors have an increasingly important role to play in international politics. In order to craft a progressive response to this transnational problem, the coordination between governments and nongovernmental organizations has led to the framing of this issue in a way that would compel governments to act. The particular configurations of actors debating and cooperating on this issue have created unique advocacy networks, especially in and between Thailand and the United States. My empirical research has led me to propose the hypothesis that the development and maintenance of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) over the course of several years have been instrumental in framing human trafficking in such a way to keep the issue high on the political agenda. I will examine this process of norm development, norm building, and norm implementation among the actors in the TANs in and between Thailand and the United States. With the advocacy networks promoting the implementation of norms, we can begin to see institutional changes in Thailand and the United States which are multifaceted responses to a complex transnational problem. ..PAT.-Unpublished Manuscript [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Conference Papers -- International Studies Association
- Publication Type :
- Conference
- Accession number :
- 42976691