Support Trafficking Victims through Inter-Agency Cooperation in Vietnam: Achievements and Limitations
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Support Trafficking Victims through Inter-Agency Cooperation in Vietnam: Achievements and Limitations Thanh Hung Tran 1 & Tien Hoang Le 2 & Thi Phuong Diep Tran 3 Received: 15 February 2019 / Accepted: 13 April 2020/ # Springer Nature B.V. 2020
Abstract
In Vietnam, hundreds of trafficked persons are officially identified and returned to Vietnamese society each year. There are also a large number of self-returned victims who have not been identified. Because of the devastating impact of human trafficking, victims need special care from communities and government agencies to support their recovery. The Vietnamese government has applied a wide range of strategies during the victim support process. Cooperation between governmental agencies has been increasingly recognised as an essential factor in the responses to human trafficking. However, there are still significant gaps in the research on inter-agency collaboration to support victims in Vietnam. This paper draws on the interviewees’ perspectives on the victim support measures, their successes, and limitations. Keywords Human trafficking . Victim support . Inter-agency . Cooperation . Challenges . Vietnam
Introduction The number of trafficking cases and victims in Vietnam has increased recently in the last decade. During that time, the Ministry of Public Security reported that 9304 victims were officially identified. Although government reports do not provide data for internal trafficking, * Tien Hoang Le [email protected] Thanh Hung Tran [email protected] Thi Phuong Diep Tran [email protected]
1
People’s Police University – Vietnam, 36 Nguyen Huu Tho, District 7, Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
2
Queensland University of Technology – Australia, 2 George St, Brisbane City, QLD 4000, Australia
3
People’s Police Academy – Vietnam, Co Nhue, Bac Tu Liem District, Ha Noi city, Vietnam
Asian Journal of Criminology
trafficking within Vietnam is also recognised as a serious problem (Duong 2014; Hoang 2013). The actual number of trafficking cases and victims is considerably higher than even that officially recognised (Kneebone and Debeljak 2012; Hoang 2013). It is also reported that among the number of official identified victim, around 22% of trafficking victims in Vietnam were received from abroad through an overseas Vietnamese representative agency, while 65% were rescued and 13% were self-returned (MOLISA 2015). In addition, across the whole country, Kneebone and Debeljak (2012) and Hoang (2013) also discover that the number of self-returned victims was enormous and much higher than the number of official victims. However, identifying those self-returned people as trafficked persons is challenging (Hoang 2013). Many individuals do not report to local authorities and, therefore, are not verified as trafficked persons (Duong 2014). The situation of trafficking in Vietnam is also related to a wide variety of influences, including economic, political, and social-cultural influences (Hoang 2013; Tucker et al. 2009). Poverty is considered the main
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