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Director of Human Exploitation and Resilience, Meredith Dank, has released two reports on first-of-kind human-trafficking studies. In the National Institute of Justice report, “Understanding the Trafficking of Children for the Purposes of Labor in the United States,” Dank and her co-authors from Northeastern University and Loyola School of Law conclude:
Many of the findings in this report suggest that not only do existing federal, state and local systems need a number of improvements and enhancements, but also new policies, procedures, and systems need to be created to better prevent, identify and assist victims and survivors of child labor trafficking.
In “Between Hope and Hardship: Migration and Work Experiences of Ethiopian Domestic Workers in Jordan, Kuwait, and Lebanon,” commissioned by the Freedom Fund, Dank and her UMass Lowell co-authors had the goal:
This exploratory study sets out to understand the decision-making, migration patterns, employment experiences, social networks and help-seeking behaviours among Ethiopian migrant domestic workers (MDWs) in three Middle Eastern countries: Lebanon, Kuwait, and Jordan.