TY - JOUR PY - 2010// TI - Methodological and ethical challenges to conducting human trafficking studies: a case study of Korean trafficking and smuggling for sexual exploitation to the United States JO - Women and criminal justice SP - 167 EP - 185 VL - 20 IS - 1/2 N2 - The objective of this article is to review a range of serious methodological and ethical challenges to studying human trafficking. In particular, the article focuses on lessons learned from a field research study of Korean sex trafficking and smuggling to the United States. We first introduce the general background of the field study as well as its findings. Then we discuss the ethnographic approach and its implementation. Finally, we discuss the various methodological challenges and ethical issues related to studying active Korean traffickers and smugglers as well as Korean victims in the U.S. sex industry. Keywords: Human trafficking
LA - en SN - 0897-4454 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08974451003641461 ID - ref1 ER -