Help Seeking During War

After finishing the literature review, adding the data from the interviews and putting the interview information into the methods sections, I sent the recruitment article off to my co-authors. It is nice to get another article sent out (in a way) since there is nothing more I can do without the Telegram data from my co-authors. Since my book is with the copy editor and I am waiting on chapter page proofs I have a little extra time to start some reading for another article based on our NSF study data. 

In the interviews with Ukrainian victim service organizations we asked people about help seeking and referrals for social services during war. We believe that between the interview data, Telegram data and hotline data we have enough for a standalone article that can examine how people fleeing war access assistance for human trafficking. I started working on the literature review for this article which is a good first step to knowing what research is out there on how refugees access social services during war. While I am working on the literature review now, with all of the other articles out under review and my book copy edits and page proofs I probably won't get back to this article again until February. That is kind of the nature of academic work, you are slowly moving lots of little pieces forward until publication where you send it out into the world and hope people read your work. I included the picture above of a human trafficking hotline awareness poster which I saw at a bus station in Ukraine while I was conducting fieldwork. I thought it was a good symbolization of what we are trying to accomplish in this paper.