Bride Traffic: Trafficking for Marriage to Australia

Other research difficulties stem from deep political divisions in the field and a lack of existing collaborative relationships between academics and practitioners in this area. Bosworth et al.’s (2011) attempts to recruit people who had been trafficked for a study of sex traffi cking in the United Kingdom were thwarted by what they perceived as a lack of “buy in” from the relevant gatekeepers, gatekeepers’ concerns about the victim/survivors being retraumatized, and a lack of faith on the part of both gatekeepers and potential participants in the capacity of academic research to make a positive difference.