Tricked and Trapped: Human Trafficking in the Middle East, ‎pdf 4.1 MB

willing to be interviewed. 2 The ILO focused its research on adults only, as
different tools and methodological approaches would have been needed to
capture the processes of trafficking of children.
This research project drew on the definitions of trafficking in the Palermo
Protocol and of forced labour in the ILO’s Forced Labour Convention,
1930 (No. 29), and the ILO Survey guidelines to estimate forced labour. In
order to determine which of the workers interviewed were in a situation
of human trafficking for forced labour, the legal definitions were broken
down into “operational indicators” that could be detected through the
interviews. 3 Following the guidance contained in the ILO survey guidelines,
three “dimensions” of forced labour were explored in the survey: “unfree
recruitment”, “life and work under duress” and “impossibility of leaving” the
employer. 4 These dimensions are explained in table 2.1.
2
This type of sampling technique works like chain referral. After interviewing one person, the
researcher will ask for assistance from the interviewee to help identify others for interview.
3
ILO: Hard to see, harder to count: Survey guidelines to estimate forced labour of adults
and children (Geneva, June 2012), p. 13.
4
Although the ILO survey guidelines were developed for the purpose of quantitative
surveys to estimate forced labour and human trafficking, the concepts and indicators
they contain can also be adapted for use and applied in qualitative studies such as this
one.
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