Post Trafficking Livelihoods in Nepal: Women, Sexuality and Citizenship
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Geog, Politics and Sociology
Abstract
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Organisations
Publications
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2012)
Non belonging and claiming citizenship: anti-trafficking activism and professionalisation in Nepal
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2011)
Passing borders : sexuality, stigma and citizenship
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2009)
Post sexual trafficking in Nepal : livelihoods, sexuality and citizenship
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2008)
Returning to livelihoods? : constructing citizenship and livelihoods post sexual trafficking in Nepal
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2010)
Spoiled goods : women's exclusion post sexual trafficking in Nepal
Diane Richardson (Author)
(2012)
(Re)constituting identities and livelihoods : the city, sexuality and stigma in Nepal
Janet Townsend (Author)
(2010)
Sexual trafficking, poverty, marginalization and citizenship in Nepal
Janet Townsend (Author)
(2010)
Sexual trafficking, poverty, marginalization and citizenship in Nepal
Laurie N
(2015)
Post-trafficking bordering practices: Perverse co-production, marking and stretching borders
in Political Geography
Laurie N
(2020)
Geographies of stigma: Post-trafficking experiences
in Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers
| Description | Leverhulme Trust Major Research Fellowship |
| Amount | £88,815 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | REF:MRF-20112-106 |
| Organisation | The Leverhulme Trust |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 09/2013 |
| End | 09/2015 |
| Description | Changing perceptions and policy for Nepalese women in post trafficking situations |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Newsletter article in 'The Researcher', School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/assets/documents/The%20Researcher-Issue%2020%20WEB.pdf |
| Description | Constructing citizenship and livelihoods post sexual trafficking in 'new' Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Newsletter article in 'The Researcher', School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, Newcastle University |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| URL | http://www.ncl.ac.uk/gps/research/documents/Researcher17.pdf |
| Description | Coverage of activist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Coverage of workshop by senior reporter/producer & was broadcast throughout the day as headline news. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Development in South Asia Conference, New York |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper on The State of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in South Asia and South Asia Diaspora given at the development in South Asia Conference held at Columbia University, New York. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Doing Sensitive research and 'Doing' Impact, at Development Studies Association Gender Group Conference Birkbeck University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation to Researching Sensitive Subjects Conference and discussion of doing impact and co production of knowledge via research working with sensitive subjects |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Doing fieldwork back home : relationship manager or a researcher? |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at Newcastle University Workshop: Fieldwork in Difficult Contexts |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Feminist development? from Colombian rainforests to a Nepali NGO |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | I shall draw on personal experience from 44 years of applied research seeking to influence policy. This will take me from my D.Phil. research in the Middle Magdalena Valley, Colombia 1966-8 to work with a Nepali NGO from October 2009 to 2011 in which one goal is to support the NGO's efforts to influence the redrafting of Nepal's constitution. I shall be reflecting on successive changes in research thinking, from 'extractive research', mining for data, to highly participatory research, and from single objective truths to multiple truths, and in development practice, from gender-blindness to 'gender and development' (feminist insights often used in distorted forms), and from a climate of 'transfer of technology' to 'neoliberalism'. I shall do this through my struggles to gain the respect of others for women and men pioneers in the rainforest in Colombia and Mexico and later struggles to learn about NGOs and women's empowerment in Mexico. This last led to a series of research projects. The first, in response to requests from women participants in the power project, was into the circulation of information, ideas and knowledge in the transnational community of NGOs. The second, from requests in Ghana, dealt with changing relationships between NGOs and the state under the new forms of aid. The Nepali NGO, Shakti, was founded and is staffed by women who had been trafficked for sex work, mainly to India, then escaped or were rescued but found themselves excluded by their families, communities and the state on their return. They are eager for research to help them work for rights to citizenship and livelihoods.. In this ESRC-funded project, Shakti asked Meena Poudel for this research, when she was working for her Newcastle PhD with Diane Richardson. The team are Meena, Diane, Nina Laurie and myself Janet. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.posttraffickingnepal.co.uk/ |
| Description | Geographies of post trafficking in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of the South and Southeast Asian Studies seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Invited keynote at the Embodied Citizenship: Mediating the State through the Self British Sociological Association Early career Forum Event, University of Nottingham |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote given on Bodies, Belonging and (Sexual) Citizenship at the Embodied Citizenship conference held at the University of Nottingham |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| Description | Looking forward strategies after a decade of optional protocol, UN global plan of action against trafficking in persons |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Looking forward strategies after a decade of Optional Protocol, UN Global Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons. General Assembly Sixty four session: Agenda item 104 Crime prevention and criminal justice 29th July Draft resolution submitted by the President of the General Assembly" Title Review of UN Global Plan of Action Against Trafficking in Persons. Paper was presented at the UN country team meeting, August 19, 2010, UNCT Meeting, UN House |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.posttraffickingnepal.co.uk/ |
| Description | Mero FM coverage of activist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio coverage of activist workshop, included in the news headlines. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Naulo Kiran special programme for International Women's Day |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Naulo Kiran (New rays), a programme sponsored by Ministry of Women, Children and Social Welfare, recorded Dr. Poudel's 20 minutes interview (live) on 9th of March on rational of celebrating International Women's Day in relation to situation of trafficked women. Key areas of focus were various aspects of trafficking in relation to citizenship and livelihood. The programme was in Nepali. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | News coverage of activist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | News coverage of activist workshop via telephone interview on Kalika FM, private radio station in Chitwan, Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | News coverage of activist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Highlights of activist workshop aired on Radio Lumbini, a community radio station in Rupendehi, Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | News coverage of activist workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | National news coverage of activist workshop. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Post sexual trafficking : the politics of marginalization and citizenship in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Sexual trafficking is a priority issue for many governments yet many aspects of sex trafficking remain poorly understood. In particular little attention has been given to the situation of trafficked women when they return from trafficking situations and seek to (re)establish a sense of belonging and respect. Drawing on an Economic and Social Research Council project on citizenship and livelihoods post sexual trafficking in Nepal, we focus on how the livelihood opportunities available to returnee trafficked women intersect with gendered and sexualised models of citizenship in a post-conflict situation where citizenship is being seen as the key mechanism for establishing new forms of belonging, institutionalised through a Constitutional Assembly. (Our research partners are Shakti Samuha, a Nepali Non Government Organization (NGO) created and staffed by returned trafficked women, and the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental organization.) Focusing on the negotiations involved in these processes over the last ten years, we examine the configuration of feminist advocacy networks and the everyday negotiations that underpin policy formation in emerging democratic settings. We analyse how the issues faced by returnee trafficked women are being addressed through new political spaces and processes, charting how grassroots NGOs and donors align themselves differently around human rights, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, migration and anti-trafficking agendas. We explore the exclusions and inclusions associated with new alliances and ask how these influence the citizenship subjectivities available to returnee trafficked women. We trace the ways in which wider regional geopolitics and security fears are currently influencing development funding targeting anti-trafficking in Nepal. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2010 |
| URL | http://www.posttraffickingnepal.co.uk/ |
| Description | Post trafficking livelihoods in Nepal : sexuality, citizenship and development |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the Feminist Research Seminar Series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Professionalization and celebrity in anti-trafficking advocacy |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Part of University of Exeter Human Geography seminar series |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Public lecture |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | An inaugural professorial lecture which sparked discussion afterwards with members of the public who were attending in relation to other aspects of presentation and heard research findings on post trafficking for the first time. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/staff/teaching/teacherstalk/inaugurallectures/ |
| Description | Returning to livelihoods? the sexual politics of poverty in South Asia |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented at the ESRC Postcolonial Economies Seminar Series, Newcastle University, 12-13 September 2007. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British Geographers , keynote given at pre conference workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Invited keynote on Ethics, Politics and Practices: Conceptualising impact in the global South: the case of a trafficking project. Given at the RGS-IBG Generating Research Impact pre-conference workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | Royal Geographical Society-Institute of British geographers Conference |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper given on Anti-trafficking Activism: Collaborating on Transforming Citizenship at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2014 |
| Description | The place of trafficked women's biographies in anti-trafficking activism in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | This paper (presented at ESRC Seminar Series: 'Activism, Volunteering and Citizenship') draws on reflections six months into a new ESRC project on citizenship, sexuality and levelihoods post sexual trafficking in Nepal. This interdisciplinary project seeks to examine the sexual politics of poverty by prioritising the voices of returnee women and exploring the extent to which national and transnational discourses and networks frame grassroots women's activism. The project is an explicitly feminist collaboration with the academic team working in partnership with Shakti Samuha, a Nepali Non Government Organisation founded and run by women who themselves have experienced sexual trafficking. In this paper we outline the role of biographies in our research focusing in particular on the tensions around trafficked women's constructions of activist biographies and the methodological challenges associated with examining these processes. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| Description | Trafficked women returnees on a razor edge |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | The Kathmandu Post published this article after interviewing part of the research team. The article quotes the researchers and highlights the findings of the research, plus an upcoming policy seminar scheduled for 4 November 2011 in Kathmandu. The Kathmandu Post |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.ekantipur.com/the-kathmandu-post/2011/10/30/metro/trafficked-women-returnees-on-a-razor-e... |
| Description | Trafficked women returnees: 'Woes of victims lying in neglect' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | After an earlier interview with part of the research team, the Kathmandu Post published this follow-up article highlighting some of the research findings. The Kathmandu Post |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2012 |
| URL | http://www.ekantipur.com/2011/11/10/capital/trafficked-women-returnees-woes-of-victims-lying-in-negl... |
| Description | Visit to Otaga University, New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper presented on Celebrity and development: insights from the world of anti-trafficking, at the Geography Department of Otago University, New Zealand. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Visit to Victoria University New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Paper given on Embodying global anti-trafficking. "Doing" and "Making" Celebrity, at the School of Geography, Environment and Earth Science, Victoria University of wellington, New Zealand |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Visit to Waikato University New Zealand |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Paper given on Making celebrity: embodied geographies of anti-trafficking |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2015 |
| Description | Vox pop talking head video |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A popular vox pop to introduce research of new professors to non specialist audiences. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | https://youtu.be/QF0RWm1gwms |
| Description | Wokalat (Advocacy) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | 30 minute programme on law and gender. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |
| Description | Women, livelihoods and citizenship post sexual trafficking in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Sexual trafficking is a priority issue for many governments yet many aspects of sex trafficking remain poorly understood. In particular little attention has been given to the situation of trafficked women when they return from trafficking situations and seek to (re)establish a sense of belonging and respect. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/iges/current-students/hg-seminar-series/ |
| Description | Women, livelihoods and citizenship post sexual trafficking in Nepal |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Primary Audience | |
| Results and Impact | Sexual trafficking is a priority issue for many governments yet many aspects of sex trafficking remain poorly understood. In particular little attention has been given to the situation of trafficked women when they return from trafficking situations and seek to (re)establish a sense of belonging and respect. Drawing on an Economic and Social Research Council project on citizenship and livelihoods post sexual trafficking in Nepal, we focus on how the livelihood opportunities available to returnee trafficked women intersect with gendered and sexualised models of citizenship in a post-conflict situation where citizenship is being seen as the key mechanism for establishing new forms of belonging, institutionalised through a Constitutional Assembly. (Our research partners are Shakti Samuha, a Nepali Non Government Organization (NGO) created and staffed by returned trafficked women, and the International Organization for Migration, an intergovernmental organization.) Focusing on the negotiations involved in these processes over the last ten years, we examine the configuration of feminist advocacy networks and the everyday negotiations that underpin policy formation in emerging democratic settings. We analyse how the issues faced by returnee trafficked women are being addressed through new political spaces and processes, charting how grassroots NGOs and donors align themselves differently around human rights, violence against women, HIV/AIDS, migration and anti-trafficking agendas. We explore the exclusions and inclusions associated with new alliances and ask how these influence the citizenship subjectivities available to returnee trafficked women. For Shakti Samuha, rights and access to citizenship are necessary for these women to secure livelihoods and inclusion. Paper given as part of the Dialogues in Human Geography' Research Seminar Series ( Aberystwyth University). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | |
| URL | http://www.posttraffickingnepal.co.uk/ |
| Description | Workshop coverage |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Radio Station contacted Dr. Poudel in workshop venue on mobile phone and broadcasted live coverage on highlights of news at 2.45pm and continued general news in the evening bulletins - 6.45 and 9.45pm. Popular FM station to policy makers, activists and professionals |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2011 |