Editorial: Who Counts? Issues of definition in anti-trafficking and housing research and action

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  • Katie Hail-Jares

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201223201

Abstract

The relationship between homelessness and contemporary forms of slavery and human trafficking is well established. Early research often took this relationship for granted and was frequently divorced from housing policy or theory. Interdisciplinary research has continued to ignore how the housing sector struggled with its own issues around defining homelessness and what the dominant definition (the United States’ HUD-Rossi definition) meant for our understanding of homelessness. This Editorial to a Special Issue of Anti-Trafficking Review on ‘home and homelessness’ discusses the HUD-Rossi definition, its impact on research, both domestically and abroad, and the recent rejection of ‘roof-based’ for a return to socio-cultural definitions. With these socio-cultural definitions in mind, this special issue introduces the research touching upon the intersection of housing and anti-trafficking in three categories: 1) listening to traditional subjects of anti-trafficking research and their views on housing, homelessness, and homes; 2) illustrating how state housing and immigration policies encourage exploitation; and 3) critiquing how housing provided by the anti-trafficking and criminal justice sector often falls short in supporting a home-like environment.

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Author Biography

Katie Hail-Jares

Katie Hail-Jares is a lecturer at the Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice in Brisbane, Australia. She has spent a decade working with people and communities who trade sex, experience homelessness, and navigate incarceration.

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Published

26-04-2023

How to Cite

Hail-Jares, K. (2023). Editorial: Who Counts? Issues of definition in anti-trafficking and housing research and action. Anti-Trafficking Review, (20), 1–12. https://doi.org/10.14197/atr.201223201