Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children (CSEC) is a serious violation of the Human Rights with global and local implications. The multidimensionality of CSEC requires us to understand its historical elements, legal definitions, and psychosocial characteristics. International agencies, states, and national agencies (statutory and voluntary sectors) have agreed on an agenda of responses including research on CSEC, partnership and collaboration, legal changes and adjustment, promoting criminal prosecution, social policies and interventions for children and young people that have been made subject to CSEC. These interventions are diverse in their approaches, purposes, types of services, models, and critical points. In accordance with international agreements, the Chilean State recognised CSEC as a social problem and developed social policies, legal changes and intervention programmes across the country. In this context, practitioners have built a 'know-how' of social intervention in CSEC based on technical guidelines (social policy on CSEC), institutional directions and pragmatic decisions from fieldwork reflexivity. However, there is no clear evidence about the rationale, models, practices, strategies and critical points in the interventions and weakness in the monitoring and evaluations. Applied Discourse Analysis was conducted to explore the relationship between different levels of social intervention on CSEC: policy, intervention models and practices. The research purpose was to describe, understand, and analyse the programmes of social intervention in CSEC, the social intervention models, and the interdisciplinary practices in Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children, implemented in the decade of 2004-2014 in Chile. Government and alternative documents were analysed (13 each), discussion groups with interdisciplinary professional teams in CSEC (3), and a focus group (1) composed of policymakers, academics, researchers, police and judicial representatives was undertaken. These materials were data-managed and analysed using the software dedoose. All University of Edinburgh Research Ethics procedures were followed. The findings indicate that Government documents highlight two discursive styles: Mandatory and Pragmatic, regarding the intervention and the approaches used. These discourses (1) defined the interventions as a part of a system or building a network of services, (2) established a condition of the intervention that recognised children as a subject of law or recognised the specialised character of the intervention, and (3) based interventions on guidelines and ethical principles or challenges, and evidence-based approaches. Alternative documents developed a discursive style of Monitoring and Evaluation that emphasised (1) the complexity of CSEC and the need to develop responses, (2) then recognised challenges such a making visible CSEC and problems with the interventions; and finally (3) recommended the basis for the intervention. Mixed Stakeholders group (1) emphasised CSEC characteristics, and the institutional responses (2) specified the structure of the intervention, and (3) identified tensions and challenges in the adjustments of social policies and intervention practices, methodological needs, and the judicial system rationale and practices. These findings are significant because they help us to understand the processes involved in building appropriate and situated responses for children and young people that have been made subject to CSE on a local, regional and global level.

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.

Made available in DSpace on 2017-07-21T18:13:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 NaboznyAlmir.pdf: 9338232 bytes, checksum: 1e2880cb39ca8477089e9d73ef157cac (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007-02-07 / This research constructs elements for comprehension of social-spacial process of comercial infantile-juvenile feminine sex exploitation in Ponta Grossa, State of Paraná, Brazil. In the middle of a legal mark (regulator of distinctions between adults, children, adolescents) there are quotidian practises of the girls forming meanings around of sexuality, body and identities. The geographical space exercise an mediator role, composing relations and representations by the quotidianity. The focal group of this investigation is constituted by chidren and adolescents of female sex who are sexual exploited in a commercial way. The execution of this research is based on (a) sistematical observation of adult prostitution points; (b) analisis of proceedings of Infancy and Youth Judgeship of Ponta Grossa, Brazil; (c) reading of registers of occurrences of Conselho Tutelar Oeste (West Tutelary Council), after the year of 1990; (d) interviews with adults sex professionals; (e) interviews with professionals who works in institutions whose target public are adolescents and children; (f) dialogues with public security professionals; (g) interlocution with communitaries agents of Programa Saúde da Família (Family Health Program) and (h) investigation with the institutionalized children and adolescents that are in shelters, by half-structured interviews and corporal and visual expression. These various fronts are complementaries in the comprehension of the phenomenon enquired and they reforce the methodological validation. The research evidenced that the spatiality of the feminine infantile-juvenile sexual exploitation phenomenon is characterized by a high complexity and it does not presents a homogeneous standard. On the contrary, its survival is possible by the multiple spatial configurations. In this way, make feasible the practises fo the components agents in the spatial interdependence. These are invisible tactics to strategies referred to the State. / Esta dissertação constrói elementos para compreensão do processo sócio-espacial da exploração sexual comercial infanto-juvenil feminina em Ponta Grossa – PR. Em meio a um marco legal (regulador das distinções entre adultos, crianças, adolescentes) existem as práticas cotidianas das meninas conformando significados em torno da sexualidade, do corpo e das identidades. O espaço geográfico exerce um papel mediador, componente de relações e representações desenvolvidas na sua cotidianidade. O grupo focal dessa investigação se constitui por crianças e adolescentes do sexo feminino exploradas sexualmente na forma comercial. A operacionalização desta pesquisa se deu a partir de (a) observação sistemática de pontos de prostituição adulta; (b) análise de processos constantes na Vara da Infância e da Adolescência, Comarca de Ponta Grossa; (c) leitura de registros de ocorrências do Conselho Tutelar Oeste, após o ano de 1990; (d) entrevistas com profissionais do sexo adultas; (e) entrevistas com profissionais que trabalham em instituições cujo público-alvo são adolescentes e crianças; (f) diálogos com profissionais de segurança pública; (g) interlocução com agentes comunitárias do Programa Saúde da Família e (h) investigação junto às crianças e adolescentes institucionalizadas em abrigos, a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas e de expressão corporal e visual. Essas diversas frentes de trabalho são complementares na compreensão do fenômeno indagado e reforçam a validação metodológica. Constatou-se que a espacialidade do fenômeno da exploração sexual comercial infanto-juvenil feminina é de alta complexidade e não apresenta um padrão homogêneo. Pelo contrário, sua sobrevivência só é possível pelas múltiplas configurações espaciais. Assim se viabilizam as práticas dos agentes componentes da rede de interdependência espacial. São táticas invisíveis às estratégias estatais.