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Collaborating against Human Trafficking: Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices de Kirsten Foot

Collaborating against Human Trafficking: Cross-Sector Challenges and Practices

Autor Kirsten Foot
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 3 sep 2015

Autorii și cercetarea din spatele acestui volum sunt reprezentați în mod principal de Kirsten Foot, profesoară de comunicare la University of Washington și o autoritate recunoscută în studiul proceselor de organizare. Experiența sa în consiliul editorial al Journal of Human Trafficking și implicarea în numeroase inițiative multi-sectoriale fundamentează această lucrare pe o bază empirică solidă, nu doar pe una teoretică. Subliniem faptul că Collaborating against Human Trafficking nu este doar o analiză a fenomenului, ci un ghid de bune practici pentru gestionarea tensiunilor sistemice care apar inevitabil în alianțele complexe.

Observăm o evoluție interesantă în opera autoarei: dacă în lucrarea sa anterioară, The Internet and National Elections, aceasta se concentra pe dinamica digitală și procesele de campanie, în volumul de față își mută atenția către mecanismele de colaborare umană și instituțională. Reținem abordarea sa interdisciplinară, care integrează perspective de la fundații donatoare și comunități religioase până la forțele de ordine și furnizorii de servicii pentru victime. Cartea este comparabilă cu The Intersector de Daniel P. Gitterman în rigurozitatea cu care tratează parteneriatele public-privat, dar este actualizată pentru specificul luptei antitrafic, unde dinamica puterii și diferențele de gen sau rasă joacă un rol critic.

Structura este una orientată spre acțiune, incluzând o anexă cu exerciții de evaluare și linkuri către resurse digitale, ceea ce o diferențiază de volumele strict descriptive precum Human Trafficking de John Winterdyk. Recomandăm această lucrare pentru claritatea cu care descrie soluțiile de „leadership partajat” și planificare strategică, oferind instrumente concrete pentru a transforma tensiunile inter-organizaționale în eforturi sustenabile.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781442246935
ISBN-10: 1442246936
Pagini: 230
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illustration; 1 b/w photo
Dimensiuni: 151 x 224 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Recomandăm această carte liderilor din sectorul public și non-guvernamental care doresc să depășească blocajele de comunicare în proiectele complexe. Cititorul câștigă acces la un set de instrumente practice și exerciții pentru eficientizarea colaborării intersectoriale. Este o lectură esențială pentru profesioniștii care caută modele sustenabile de parteneriat, beneficiind de expertiza unei cercetătoare care donează toate veniturile cărții cauzei pe care o studiază.

Descriere

In the fight against human trafficking, cross-sector collaboration is vital-but often, systemic tensions undermine the effectiveness of these alliances. Kirsten Foot explores the most potent sources of such difficulties, offering insights and tools that leaders in every sector can use to re-think the power dynamics of partnering.

Weaving together perspectives from many sectors including business, donor foundations, mobilization and advocacy NGOs, faith communities, and survivor-activists, as well as government agencies, law enforcement, and providers of victim services, Foot assesses how differences in social location (financial well-being, race, gender, etc.) and sector-based values contribute to interpersonal, inter-organizational, and cross-sector challenges. She convincingly demonstrates that finding constructive paths through such multi-level tensions-by employing a mix of shared leadership, strategic planning, and particular practices of communication and organization-can in turn facilitate more robust and sustainable collaborative efforts. An appendix provides exercises for use in building, evaluating, and trouble-shooting multi-sector collaborations, as well as links to online tools and recommendations for additional resources.

All royalties from this book go to nonprofits in U.S. cities dedicated to facilitating cross-sector collaboration to end human trafficking. For more information and related resources, please visit http://CollaboratingAgainstTrafficking.info.

Recenzii

Foot's honest and critical attention throughout her book to the visible and the not-so-visible challenges to cross-sector collaboration against human trafficking is a refreshingly clever approach to partnership-building within this growing field. Though human trafficking is often cited as a crime that is 'hidden in plain sight', Foot works to confront this belief in her book by encouraging stakeholders of all backgrounds and positioning - from victims to survivors to law enforcement, governments and VSPs - to persevere through challenges of collaboration together. In doing so, Foot makes a strong case for an achievable and worthwhile way forward in the anti-trafficking arena in the United States and beyond.
[Foot's] insights into the roles of gender, race, class, and nonsurvivor or survivor status.contribute important knowledge to the countertrafficking field. They may also point to further lines of inquiry.. Because human trafficking hinges on the disempowerment and debasement of human beings, Foot's special attention to the role of power dynamics within counter-trafficking collaborations appears particularly important for social workers and other collaborators to consider closely.. Foot's many years of study, her balanced and inclusive approach, and her dissemination of practical knowledge makes her a reliable source of information for those who are committed to improving or building their own countertrafficking collaborations.
Kirsten Foot's book is a timely contribution to the field.. This book in many ways reveals some of the implicit and silent barriers and impediments that influence collaboration efforts; some of which may be true to any sector, and some of which may be specific to the countertrafficking field. Overall, the book offers some interesting and important accounts.. [I]t is a well-written book, it weaves together anecdote, data analysis, and the broader literature in an assured and engaging way, and it will be of interest to those seeking to improve collaboration efforts and to scholars of communication studies more generally.
I enjoyed reading this book and believe it should be required reading for all management researchers with an interest in multisector collaboration and its role in social and environmental justice. Foot's work is academically rooted but also the product of direct experience in the field. Her observations are based on the literature, an in-depth study of various collaborations around trafficking, and her own experience volunteering in the sector. The book is full of fascinating vignettes from her field research that bring the topic to life. And given that these vignettes always at least touch on, and often engage deeply with, the horrors of trafficking, they keep the reader highly engaged in a way not often encountered in our field.
[Foot] presents a first-hand account and thoughtfully constructed conclusions around the many issues that develop when anti-trafficking organizations work together towards defeating human trafficking.. The book summarizes and provides a clear structure to many issues that have yet to be collectively considered in this field. Foot has written a highly practical text that makes many useful suggestions for improving inter-organizational collaboration by offering group exercises and resources that combat human trafficking. Her protocols are well referenced and include detailed footnotes.. Overall, Foot succeeds in drawing the reader in with captivating notes from her interviews, field work and experiences and utilizes jargon that is accessible to audiences of different levels. This text is succinct yet detailed, and the author makes a clear point to remain as impartial as possible in order to encourage the reader to view issues presented from multiple perspectives. This book is very relevant to inter-professional care because it can be used as a point of reference when considering potential issues and improvements for collaboration within not only criminal justice and social work, but also other health-related and community-focused fields. Foot states that trust, respect and perseverance are the values required to improve interdisciplinary collaboration - a necessary and central factor - in the fight against human trafficking.
Collaborating against Human Trafficking addresses a very important issue: what works in much vaunted partnerships to fight trafficking. Policymakers, scholars, and aspiring activists would do well to heed the lessons about sound and aligned goals in this book, as those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it.
As a survivorship expert, I consider this book a must read for anyone working to counter human trafficking.
Foot has written an excellent book: thoughtful, well researched, and instructive. I urge business leaders to read it and engage in the twenty-first-century fight against human slavery.
This useful and much needed resource explores hard truths of collaboration in honest and helpful ways.
Foot brings to light the challenges of cross-sector collaboration, the frustrations and rewards for those involved in collaborative anti-trafficking efforts, and what can be achieved-or lost. This highly readable book should be required reading for anyone engaged in collaborative work.
An excellent examination of multisector collaboration. Kirsten Foot draws on astute research, exceptional insights, and illustrative examples to beautifully explain both the tensions inherent in and the benefits to be derived from incorporating many intersecting perspectives.
Anyone who has worked on the ground to end trafficking will instantly recognize the trials, tradeoffs, and triumphs involved in collaborative work. Foot takes the reader directly into these day-to-day efforts, demonstrating how much has been learned and how much more there still is to do.