Human Trafficking: The Misconceptions A Review of the literature surrounding human trafficking, specifically what it says or doesn't say about male victims. Danae Zimmer

Topic: Human Trafficking in scholarly literature Focus: Male victims' role in scholarly literature Target: Scholars Method: Political Economy & In-depth Interviews Goal: To bring to light the absence of male victim's in scholarly literature about human trafficking, through the absence of literature about labor trafficking and the repercussions of that.

Literature Review Gendered Discussions of Human Trafficking  Exclusion of men  Focus on sex trafficking --> women Statistical Reality of Men in Human Trafficking  Lack of labor trafficking  No agreement on what constitutes human trafficking  The number of men actually involved in trafficking (sex and labor) as victims/ survivors.

Political Economy Relationship between the economy and trafficking. How sweatshops and migrant farm workers play into it  Are these considered to be forms of trafficking?

In-depth Interviews Florida Farmworkers Association  Jeannie Economos- Pesticide Safety and Environmental Health Project Coordinator Florida Coalition Against Human Trafficking  Giselle Rodriguez- State Outreach Coordinator

Conclusion/ Discussion It appears that the lack of a decisive definition about what constitutes human trafficking (sweatshops/ migrant farm work) as well as the one-sided discussion that typically only involves sex trafficking keep men uninvolved except as perpetrators.