The Covid-19 pandemic: theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking

Asongu, Simplice and Usman, Usman (2020): The Covid-19 pandemic: theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women and sex trafficking. Published in: Health Care for Women International , Vol. 41, No. 11-12 (December 2020): pp. 1384-1397.

Abstract

We provide theoretical and practical perspectives on children, women, and sex trafficking during the Covid-19 pandemic. Process tracing is employed as a primary research instrument. It is an analytical technique used for either theory-building or theory-testing purposes that is employed to elucidate causation and change as well as to develop and evaluate extant theories in social sciences. We illustrate that a policy is needed that will strengthen the capacity of existing structures in the fight against the underlying trafficking so that these attendant structures are efficiently used to stop the trafficking and avoid the corresponding threats to public health safety.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Coronavirus, pandemic, human trafficking, girls and women, feminism
• Subjects: I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General > I00 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development

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