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SIXTH
INTERNATIONAL METROPOLIS CONFERENCE WORKSHOP 7: Cultural advocacy
as a means of engagement and empowerment for "trafficked" women Tuesday, November 27, 2001
14:00 - 15:30
ORGANIZERS
John Davies (Irish)
Migration Research Centre, University of Sussex,
3 Palacegate House, Hampton Court Way, East Molesey, Surrey KT8 9BN, UK
+33 426 653108
Migrationresearch@chello.fr Juljana Vullnetari (Albanian)
Femmes de l'Est (Trafficked women self-help organization)
7 Chemin du Plain Vallon, Caluire et Cuire, France 69300
+33 66 6003108
femmesdelest@yahoo.com
WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION
The goal of this workshop is to discuss the skills and effective strategies
of trafficked women in overcoming abuse, and how such migrant women can
be effectively supported rather than further oppressed by host institutions
and ill founded policy. This workshop will engage with participants in
a dialogical examination of the various methods by which differing actors
seek to engage with migrant sex workers including trafficked women. The
workshop will then present the cultural advocacy methodology as a process
that allows them to set their own agenda for engagement with host institutions.
The workshop will also consider how policy regarding the vulnerability
of trafficked women should be informed by their realities rather than
the speculative moral panic that is presently resulting in the increased
objectification of migrant women and "reverse trafficking" by
host culture organizations. The workshop is based on a
two-year research project among trafficked women. The workshop will demonstrate
how they were able to organize to overcome abuse from within their group,
and create their own community organization with the help of a cultural
advocate. The workshop will be able to draw on personal experience of
both presenters to make international comparisons with practice regarding
trafficked women in Albania, Greece, Hungary, Moldova, Romania, Italy,
Holland, France and the UK and the model developed in France and Hungary.
The workshop will make use of an extensive role playing exercise to allow
workshop participants to experience various trafficking processes and
decision making in sex work migration to ensure relevant discussion. DURATION
1 session STRUCTURE
- Presentation regarding the method
- Comments regarding the policy and research implications
- Brief role-playing session as part of the exchange experience
- discussion PARTICIPANTS NGO Julie Vullnetari
Researcher: John Davies
Policy makers: Patsy Sorenson (MEP
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