Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/46018 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 5142
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
Ethnic conflicts and their links to international human trafficking have recently received a surge in international attention. It appears that ethnic conflicts exacerbate the internal displacement of individuals from networks of family and community, and their access to economic and social safety nets. These same individuals are then vulnerable to being trafficked by the hopes of better economic prospects elsewhere. In this paper, we empirically examine this link between ethnic fragmentation, conflicts, internally displaced persons (IDPs), refugees and international trafficking, making use of a novel dataset of international trafficking. We conduct a direct estimation, which highlights the ultimate impact of ethnic fragmentation and conflict on international trafficking through internal and international displacements.
Subjects: 
ethnic fragmentation
conflict
displaced persons
human trafficking
JEL: 
R23
D74
O11
Z12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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