Human Trafficking Hotline Article Submission
Finally, getting back to some of the research from our NSF sponsored research project on human trafficking during the war in Ukraine. It has been a hectic summer and so many decisions came in May and early June when I was traveling with students and did not have time to work on them. Then in July we moved 600 miles across the country so I am trying to get caught up in August before the academic year starts at my new institution. This week I had the opportunity to resubmit our human trafficking hotline article. This article utilizes unique data from 88,939 calls received by the National Toll-Free Migrant and Anti-Trafficking Hotline 527 from September 2021 to September 2023-before and after the full-scale invasion. We explored who accesses the human trafficking hotline during war and how does insecurity for potential migrants manifest during war as they navigate displacement. We determined that hotline data can be a precursor to the human trafficking patterns that follow because it can ...