Table Of ContentThe Fight against Human
Trafficking
Drivers and Spoilers
Maria Ravlik
The Fight against Human Trafficking
Maria Ravlik
The Fight
against Human
Trafficking
Drivers and Spoilers
Maria Ravlik
Center for the Study of Democracy
Leuphana University
Lüneburg, Germany
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To mom & dad with the deepest appreciation
A
cknowledgements
Writing this book was a challenging, yet, enriching time of my life, and
I am eternally grateful to my mentors Amy Alexander and Christian
Welzel for their constant support, insightful motivation, and fruitful
discussions along this journey. I am also thankful to my colleagues and
friends at Leuphana University for the always-inspiring discussions and
extremely helpful comments: Jan Berz, Lennart Brunkert, Björn Buß,
Cristina Carbonell, Franziska Deutsch, Katja Heeß, Greta Jasser, Marcus
Kronfeldt, Stefan Kruse, Sybille Münch, Cemal Öztürk, Xavier Romero,
Pavel Satra, Lisa Schmitz, Florian von Stern, Vera van Hüllen, and
Michelangelo Vercesi. I am also beyond thankful to my colleagues from
my alma mater and my second affiliation as an associate researcher—the
Laboratory for Comparative Social Research: Olga Gryaznova, Ronald
Inglehart, Tatiana Karabchuk, Veronika Kostenko, Maria Kravzova, Anna
Nemirovskaya, Eduard Ponarin, Andrey Scherbak, Natalia Soboleva,
and Boris Sokolov. I want to extend my thanks to the colleagues at
Goettingen University: Tobias Jakobi and Patrick Theiner, who were
supportive during the very early stages of this research. I am sure that
without thefruitful discussions and constant feedback exchange with all
my colleagues and mentors, this book would not exist. I also want to
thank my editor Sarah Roughley, for her trust, support, and encourage-
ment through the entire publication process.
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Finally, I want to wholeheartedly thank my family and friends: mom,
dad, Oleg, Lena, Lisa, Masha, Thomas, Annika, Mai-Britt, Enrique, and
Jean. Your unconditional love and support through all these years indeed
contributed the most toward finishing this project.
Lüneburg, Germany Maria Ravlik
August 2019
A t b
bout his ook
This book aims to provide a quantitative, cross-nationally comparative,
longitudinal, and multilevel study of the drivers and spoilers of national
governments’ anti-trafficking measures. Both macro-level determinants
of anti-trafficking enforcement and micro-level foundations of human
trafficking are unfolded and explored. Large-N comparative research
examines how characteristics of countries interact with people’s attitudes
toward violence to better understand what creates environments that
are more or less supportive of governments’ anti-trafficking efforts. The
results presented in the book are highly relevant from the perspectives of
global governance and human rights protection.
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ontents
1 Introduction 1
Part I The Data Challenge
2 Triangulated Nexus of Anti-trafficking Enforcement 27
3 Measuring Anti-trafficking Enforcement 35
Part II Macro-level Determinants of Anti-trafficking
Enforcement
4 Identifying the Global Drivers 49
5 Exploring Differences Between Countries 77
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Part III Micro-level Foundations of Anti-trafficking
Enforcement
6 Proxying a Public Policy 103
7 Explaining Tolerance of Violence 113
Part IV Conclusion
8 Conclusion 135
Appendix 147
References 207
Index 221
