A life-course perspective of sex trafficking among the bedia caste of India

IF 3.4 2区社会学 Q1 Medicine

Advances in Life Course Research Pub Date : 2022-12-01 DOI:10.1016/j.alcr.2022.100517

Rochelle L. Dalla , Kaitlin Roselius , Victoria J. Johnson , Jessie Peter , Trupti Jhaveri Panchal , Ramani Ranjan , Mrinalini Mischra , Sagar Sahu

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Abstract

Thousands of Indian women and girls enter the commercial sex industry (CSI) annually based solely on membership in particular castes (e.g., Bedia, Nat). CSI-involved females bear the burden of sustaining entire family units on money earned in the sex trade; it is a life-long responsibility with negligible social status or personal indemnity. Based on the life-course developmental theory (Elder, Jr. 1994, 1998) this investigation was intended to examine trafficked women’s experiences within the commercial sex industry across time. Beyond the CSI, we were equally interested in experiences with factors that could promote well-being (i.e., social support) and normative developmental transitions including education attainment and motherhood. To that end, three questions were posed. First, to what extent do factors surrounding CSI entry and continued involvement differ through time among CSI-involved Bedia? Second, how do CSI-involved Bedia describe social network composition and perceived support through time? Finally, are differences detectable, through time, in CSI-involved Bedia women’s experiences with normative developmental transitions including education attainment and motherhood? Interview data were collected from 31 Bedia females (age range 17 – 65 years) residing in rural Madhya Pradesh, India. To examine change through time, participants were divided into cohorts based on age and time involved in the commercial sex industry. Data were then analyzed within and across cohorts with particular attention to cohort-related experiential differences. Policy implications and suggestions for continued research are presented.

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印度贝迪亚种姓性交易的生命历程视角

每年有成千上万的印度妇女和女孩进入商业性行业(CSI)，仅仅基于特定种姓的成员资格(例如，Bedia, Nat)。参与犯罪现场调查的女性承担着用性交易赚来的钱维持整个家庭的负担;这是一项终生的责任，社会地位或个人赔偿微不足道。基于生命历程发展理论(Elder, Jr. 1994,1998)，本调查旨在考察被贩卖妇女在商业性行业中的经历。除了CSI，我们同样对能够促进幸福(即社会支持)和规范发展转变(包括教育程度和母亲身份)的因素感兴趣。为此，提出了三个问题。首先，在参与CSI的Bedia中，围绕CSI进入和持续参与的因素在多大程度上随时间而不同?第二，csi参与的Bedia如何描述社会网络构成和感知支持?最后，随着时间的推移，参与csi的Bedia妇女在包括受教育程度和成为母亲在内的规范性发展转变方面的经历中是否可以发现差异?访谈数据收集自31名居住在印度中央邦农村的Bedia女性(年龄范围17 - 65岁)。为了检查随着时间的变化，参与者根据年龄和参与商业性行业的时间被分成几组。然后对队列内和跨队列的数据进行分析，特别注意与队列相关的经验差异。提出了政策影响和继续研究的建议。

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Advances in Life Course Research SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY-

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6.10

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2.90%

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期刊介绍： Advances in Life Course Research publishes articles dealing with various aspects of the human life course. Seeing life course research as an essentially interdisciplinary field of study, it invites and welcomes contributions from anthropology, biosocial science, demography, epidemiology and statistics, gerontology, economics, management and organisation science, policy studies, psychology, research methodology and sociology. Original empirical analyses, theoretical contributions, methodological studies and reviews accessible to a broad set of readers are welcome.