Human Trafficking and Legal Culture in Latin America: A nested socio-legal comparative study

拉丁美洲的人口贩运与法律文化：嵌套的社会法律比较研究

• 批准号: 2873322
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Nottingham
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2873322
• 关键词: Human; Trafficking; Legal; Culture; Latin

This research project will comprehensively address the nuances and interpretations of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America in regional and comparative perspective. Through the lens of legal culture, the project will identify patterns and trends in anti-trafficking laws, analysed in conjunction with meaning-making factors. To develop a contemporary contextual understanding of human trafficking in Latin America as constructed and shaped by legal culture, this research project will address the core research question: How have legal cultures in Latin American countries shaped the understanding, domestication, and application of the anti-trafficking laws?This research will address three sub-questions:1. How has the international prohibition of trafficking been domesticated in Latin America?2. How have legal cultures shaped the design and application of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America?3. What other factors have shaped the design and application of anti-trafficking provisions in Latin America?The project will employ a mixed methods nested analysis operating at three scales: global, regional, and national. The project will be divided into three research streams representing these different scales, with learnings from each scale informing and reforming analysis across the others. 1. Global secondary data analysis will take advantage of new and established international quantitative datasets relevant to the domestication of the anti-trafficking prohibition. This includes datasets such as the Global Slavery Index (Walk Free Foundation) and the Antislavery in Domestic Legislation (Schwarz & Allain, 2020) and others. This stream will identify potential explanatory factors linked to political, historical, economic, and cultural contexts, to form a quantitative evidence base for statistical analysis of factors related to the design and implementation of anti-trafficking laws. 2. Regional doctrinal and empirical analysis will consider the regional legal context of Latin America, interrogating the translation of international anti-trafficking norms in Inter-American human rights law. Doctrinal and qualitative methods will be employed to examine legal texts and cases before both the Inter-American Commission and the Court through the lens of legal culture, seeking to understand the contextual meaning-making factors underpinning the law's design and interpretation. Regional legal analysis will also include comparative consideration of anti-trafficking law across Latin America, drawing additional quantitative and qualitative evidence into the interrogation delivered in research stream (1) and considering the interplay between the regional system and domestic laws. 3. National case studies in two Latin American countries will deliver a close examination of legal culture in context, and how this shapes the design and implementation of anti-trafficking laws. The national case studies-to be selected based on a defined case selection framework driven by preliminary data analysis-will identify and map meaning-making factors, characteristics, and underlying values and principles of the legal system to understand how they shape anti-trafficking laws. Primary data collection is expected to include semi-structured key informant interviews and surveys with policymakers and practitioners but may also employ other qualitative and mixed methods.

该研究项目将从区域和比较的角度全面探讨拉丁美洲反人口贩运条款的细微差别和解释。通过法律文化的视角，该项目将识别反人口贩运法的模式和趋势，并结合意义制定因素进行分析。为了对拉丁美洲人口贩运由法律文化构建和塑造的当代背景进行理解，本研究项目将解决核心研究问题：拉丁美洲国家的法律文化如何塑造了反人口贩运的理解、驯化和应用。这项研究将解决三个子问题：1．国际上禁止人口贩运的规定是如何在拉丁美洲国内化的？2．法律文化如何影响拉丁美洲反人口贩运条款的设计和应用？3.还有哪些因素影响了拉丁美洲反人口贩运条款的设计和应用？该项目将采用在全球、区域和国家三个层面上进行的混合方法嵌套分析。该项目将分为代表这些不同规模的三个研究流，每个规模的经验教训都会为其他规模的分析提供信息和改革。 1. 全球二手数据分析将利用与反贩运禁令国内化相关的新的和已建立的国际定量数据集。这包括全球奴隶制指数（自由行走基金会）和国内立法中的反奴隶制（Schwarz＆Allin，2020）等数据集。该流程将识别与政治、历史、经济和文化背景相关的潜在解释因素，为反人口贩运法设计和实施相关因素的统计分析形成定量证据基础。 2. 区域理论和实证分析将考虑拉丁美洲的区域法律背景，探讨美洲人权法中国际反人口贩运规范的翻译。将采用理论和定性方法，从法律文化的角度审查美洲委员会和法院审理的法律文本和案例，力求理解支撑法律设计和解释的背景意义形成因素。区域法律分析还将包括对整个拉丁美洲反人口贩运法的比较考虑，为研究方向（1）中提供的询问提供额外的定量和定性证据，并考虑区域体系与国内法律之间的相互作用。 3. 两个拉丁美洲国家的国家案例研究将仔细审视法律文化的背景，以及它如何影响反人口贩运法的设计和实施。国家案例研究——根据初步数据分析驱动的明确案例选择框架进行选择——将识别和绘制法律体系的意义形成因素、特征以及基本价值观和原则，以了解它们如何制定反人口贩运法。主要数据收集预计将包括对政策制定者和从业人员的半结构化关键知情人访谈和调查，但也可能采用其他定性和混合方法。