Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Human traffic has been taken in a huge proportion in the last few decades, driven forward by socio economic inequality including all the kinds of race/ ethnicity, becoming an important point of the happening called "Human Traffic". This genres approaching research, is focused on analyze the actions of the managers and professionals about the work of the `Rede de EnfrentamentoaoTrafico de Pessoas para fins de exploração Sexual de Sergipe´, pointing trend and challenges daily faced. It´s based on the historical- dialectic which tries to comprehend the human traffic to the sexual exploring beyond this phenomenalistic expression, showing the particular and universal aspects in addition to some specificities of the object. Were used different information sources like: bibliographies, documents, oral sources by the semi-structured interviews with women, managers and professionals of the executing agencies, promotion areas and accountable defense. The result points besides others issues, the fragility and lack of ability inside of the management in actions in the department area, lack of communication between different opinions, hierarchy of services , none knowledge of the legislation and studies about the occurrence. / O tráfico de seres humanos vem assumindo proporções gigantescas nas últimas décadas, impulsionado pelas desigualdades socioeconômicas, aliadas as de gênero raça/etnia, questões estruturantes do fenômeno tráfico de pessoas. A presente pesquisa,sob a abordagem de gênero, objetiva analisar as representações de gestores e profissionais sobre o trabalho da Rede de Enfrentamento do Tráfico de Pessoas para fins de Exploração Sexual em Sergipe, apontando tendências e desafios enfrentados no cotidiano. Norteia-se pelo método histórico-dialético, o qual busca compreender a questão do Tráfico de Pessoas para fins de Exploração Sexual para além da sua expressãofenomênica, destacando os aspectossingulares e universais, bem como as particularidades do objeto. Foram utilizadas diferentes fontes de informação: bibliografias, documentos, fontes orais por meio da entrevista semiestruturada com mulheres e homens gestores e profissionais das instituições executoras, nos eixos de Promoção, Defesa e responsabilização. Os resultados evidenciam, entre outras questões, a existência de fragilidade/desarticulação da gestão intersetorial nas ações e instâncias das secretarias, falta de comunicação entre diferentes políticas, hierarquização dos serviços, desconhecimento sobre a legislação e estudos sobre o fenômeno.

This investigation explores the international perspectives of causality of human traffic, specifically, traffic into commercial sexual exploitation. Current Western approaches to combat trafficking centre around law and order, immigration issues, and victim protection programs. While these are important for a holistic effort to deter traffic, these foci overlook prevention endeavors, thereby acting as a band-aid on a bullet wound, addressing the symptoms, but not the foundation of trafficking. Western perspectives toward prevention concentrate on economic aspects of supply and demand while crediting the root cause to be poverty. Using social exclusion theory, this thesis demonstrates that the current paradigm of viewing human trafficking in purely economic terms is an oversimplification. This project proposes to widen the focus of prevention efforts those cultural and social structures which push and pull victims into trafficking. The research is a response to an international call for further initiatives to prevent human trafficking, the recent rise of human traffic in Guatemala, Central America and the lack of research which focuses on the social links with trafficking and mainstream society. Research conducted in Guatemala, included a thirteen-month ethnography and involved one-hundred and thirteen qualitative interviews conducted in nine Guatemalan cities strategically located along trafficking routes. The target research population included women sex workers and former traffic victims from Central America and included insights from non-governmental organizations workers. Twenty-three interviewees were Central American migrants which provided insight in the wider regional structures of traffic and commercial sexual exploitation. The interviews aimed at understanding the lived experiences of exploitation in order to determine whether social exclusion affects human traffic within commercial sexual exploitation. The findings revealed the underlying social and cultural structures which reinforce human trafficking. Empirical data collected provides real-time data on trafficking networks, commercial sexual exploitation and reveals the geo-political significance of Guatemala as a hot-spot for traffic. Analysis of interviews illustrates variations in the experience of human traffic and commercial sexual exploitation which challenges current western stereotypical ideas on traffic victims. Conceptually, macro-structures—political, economic, social, and violence—are presented as a back drop for the formation of wider networks of exploitation. The exploration of violence as a push factor challenges international forced repatriation policies. Micro-structures—gender roles, family, violence, and coping strategies—are examined in the ways they perpetuate social systems of trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation. Theoretically, the thesis argues against the current paradigm which narrowly focuses on economics, but calls for the incorporation of social exclusion theory to understand the multi-dimensionality of human traffic and its wider links to society in order to open up new dialogue for prevention between the West and the majority world.