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Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France

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Darley, M., Dölemeyer, A. Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France. Sociologus, 70(1), 19-38. https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.70.1.19
Darley, Mathilde and Dölemeyer, Anne "Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France" Sociologus 70.1, , 19-38. https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.70.1.19
Darley, Mathilde/Dölemeyer, Anne: Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France, in: Sociologus, vol. 70, iss. 1, 19-38, [online] https://doi.org/10.3790/soc.70.1.19
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Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France

Darley, Mathilde | Dölemeyer, Anne

Sociologus, Vol. 70 (2020), Iss. 1 : pp. 19–38

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CNRS Researcher, CESDIP, 43 Boulevard Vauban, 78280 Guyancourt, France

Researcher, University of Applied Sciences HAWK, Hildesheim. HAWK, Fakultät M, Haarmannplatz 3, 37603 Holzminden

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Abstract

Abstract

According to prosecuting authorities, victims trafficked into sexual exploitation are difficult to identify; it seems even harder to find ‘appropriate’ victims willing to testify in court. This is often ascribed to ‘cultural differences’ rooted in their (supposedly) foreign origin. In our contribution, we show how counselling centres for trafficking victims in France and Germany help to identify victims and to make them more suitable for prosecuting authorities. In doing so, we argue that these counselling centres position themselves as indispensable ‘cultural translators’: they help public authorities understand the victims, and they help the victims understand public authorities, thus providing the basis for any criminal procedure. Despite very different structures and legal circumstances between France and Germany, we found a number of similarities in how staff at German and French counselling centres first establish such cultural differences as a given to then be able to bridge them. In doing so, we argue, they (even unintendedly) contribute to ethnicising and further othering their clients, especially highly marginalized ‘groups’ like ‘Nigerians’ and ‘Roma’.

Keywords: State ethnography, NGOs, human trafficking, construction of cultural differences

Table of Contents

Section Title Page Action Price
Mathilde Darley / Anne Dölemeyer: Caring for Victims of Human Trafficking: Staging and Bridging Cultural Differences in Germany and France 1
Abstract 1
1. Introduction 1
2. Victim Support Organizations in France and Germany: Different Regulatory Framework, Similar Governing Practices? 5
3. Mediation Work: Making the Victim Exist for the Authorities and Awakening an Awareness of Victimhood 7
4. Knowledge Transfer Between Counselling Offices and Authorities 1
4.1 Germany: Mediation Work as a Reciprocal Adaption Between Victims and Authorities 1
4.2 France: Cultural Expertise as the Bridging of Working Differences Between State and Non-State Actors? 1
5. Conclusion 1
References 1

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