Human Trafficking in Hawai‘i: Special challenges in rural areas
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2014
Publication Title
The Community Psychologist
Abstract
Over the past decade human trafficking has been gaining public attention and spurring local, state, and federal government responses. As a community psychology graduate student at the University of Hawai`i, I decided that a contextually-grounded exploration of human trafficking in Hawai`i would be important for understanding how to better address the issue in a specific place and time. The State of Hawai`i is an ideal place to explore issues of human trafficking as it has had several high profile trafficking cases in recent years (Lin, 2011; Mori, 2012) and previously had established an anti-human trafficking coalition with members located primarily in the metropolitan center of Honolulu.
Recommended Citation
(2014). Human trafficking in Hawai‘i: Special challenges in rural areas. The Community Psychologist, 47(1), 28-30.
Comments
Acknowledgements – Funding provided by University of Hawai`i Department of Psychology Gartley Award