Huang Lanying
Graduate School of Criminology, National Taipei University, 151 University Rd., San Shia District, New Taipei City, 23741, Taiwan.
BMC Womens Health. 2017 Nov 9;17(1):104. doi: 10.1186/s12905-017-0463-2.
Prior to the passing of 2009 Human Trafficking Prevention Act (HTPA), human trafficking was underestimated in Taiwan. In the past, domestic trafficking in women and girls often targeted vulnerable groups such as young girls from poor families or minority groups. Since the 1990s, an increasing flow of immigrant women, mainly from Vietnam and Indonesia and some from China, into Taiwan has created a new group of Human Trafficking victims. The current study intends to identify, describe, and categorize reported and prosecuted human trafficking cases involving women and girls according to the HTPA in Taiwan.
Using the court proceedings of prosecuted trafficking in women and girls cases under Taiwan's HTPA from all 21 districts in Taiwan from 2009 to 2012 under the title keyword of 'Human Trafficking', this current study aims to categorize different patterns of existing trafficking in women and girls in Taiwan. The analysis is based on 37 court cases, involving 195 victimized women and girls and 118 perpetrators.
This study identifies six forms of Human Trafficking victims according to their country of origin, vulnerability status, and means of transport. This study found that women and girls suffer from both labor and sexual exploitation, from mainly domestic male perpetrators. While sexual exploitation is more evenly distributed among citizens and immigrants and affects both adults and minors, labor exploitation seems to be an exclusive phenomenon among women immigrant workers in the data.
Human Trafficking cases in Taiwan share many of the similarities of Human Trafficking in other regions, which are highly associated with gender inequality and gender-based vulnerability.
在2009年《人口贩运防治法》（HTPA）通过之前，台湾对人口贩运问题的重视程度不足。过去，岛内针对妇女和女童的人口贩运活动，常常将贫困家庭的年轻女孩或少数族裔等弱势群体作为目标。自20世纪90年代以来，越来越多的移民妇女涌入台湾，她们主要来自越南、印度尼西亚，还有一些来自中国，这造就了一批新的人口贩运受害者群体。本研究旨在根据台湾的《人口贩运防治法》，对已报案并被起诉的涉及妇女和女童的人口贩运案件进行识别、描述和分类。
本研究利用2009年至2012年台湾21个地区依据《人口贩运防治法》对妇女和女童人口贩运案件进行起诉的法庭记录，以“人口贩运”作为标题关键词，旨在对台湾现有的不同类型的妇女和女童人口贩运模式进行分类。分析基于37起法庭案件，涉及195名受害妇女和女童以及118名犯罪者。
本研究根据受害者的原籍国、易受害状况和运输方式，识别出六种形式的人口贩运受害者。研究发现，妇女和女童遭受劳动剥削和性剥削，犯罪者主要是岛内男性。虽然性剥削在公民和移民中分布更为均匀，且对成年人和未成年人都有影响，但在数据中，劳动剥削似乎是移民女工特有的现象。
台湾的人口贩运案件与其他地区的人口贩运案件有许多相似之处，这些都与性别不平等和基于性别的脆弱性高度相关。
