302 – What Did You Do This Summer?

Dr. Sandie Morgan discusses her summer travels and the new perspectives she gained on human trafficking.

Key Points

It's important to integrate the stand-point theory in our learning, listening, and strategy development in order to help those in the most unique of circumstances.

Cultural context plays a large role in understanding where intervention and prevention can be effective.

A "quick rescue" does not exist and it is essential that to provide a way out, resources are provided over and over, and not just seen as a one time thing.

After care of rescue is key for providing long-term safe environments for survivors.

Everyone has a role to play in learning about and improving strategies for intervention and prevention.

Resources

Fiet Gratia

Episode #299- A Prevention Perspective with, Ezequiel Escobar Bellshaw 

La Guardia Civil 

Spain Interpol 

Migratory Birds Newspaper 

United Nations

UNICEF

Humanitarian Bridges 

Hermano Pablo Ministries 

A Breeze of Hope 

Project Suma 

Parliament of World’s Religions 

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Transcript

Sandra Morgan 0:00

You are listening to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast, episode #302: "What Did You Do This Summer?"

Welcome to the Ending Human Trafficking podcast here at Vanguard University's Global Center for Women and Justice in Orange County, California. This is the show where we empower you to study the issues, be a voice, and make a difference in ending human trafficking. Today's episode is a special one. Although a guest won't be joining us, I have a lot to share with you. This summer, I traveled to four amazing countries, each unique in its own way. During my travels, I began to develop some new perspectives on how I understand what human trafficking looks like. I've often said it's more than one thing, it doesn't always look the same. But I want to spend a little time and take a deeper dive into the differences, alongside the similarities in those countries and my experience, and right here in my own country, in the United States. I started my summer with a short trip to Dominican Republic, where leaders in the anti-trafficking movement, and especially survivor leaders, those with lived experience were gathered to continue the discussion and develop strategies that will impact our community, collective response to end human trafficking. As I was listening and learning to people with lived experience, I made some significant discoveries. First of all, and this is actually very basic, we've all said this, but I don't think we have been as selective in how we apply this. We have a tendency to use a lot of generalizations, a lot of big statistics, but there is no one size fits all approach to prevention or intervention.

As I talk to my students here at Vanguard, which I'm so happy they're back on campus, and the idea for telling about my summer as part of a podcast episode came from those conversations. And they want to know, what my take away was. What do we need to do? My take away from that conference, where I listened, I took tons of notes, I asked questions, is that there is so much more that we do not understand and principles are applicable, but need to be specifically designed for unique circumstances. So let me give you an example. I'm working with a student who is studying how to do research in the context of social justice,