Interview with Beatrice Achieng Nas, BSC

Beatrice Achieng Nas, the founder and director of a non-governmental organization in Uganda, is a Community Solutions Program Fellow through the International Research & Exchanges (IREX) Board and a Visiting Scholar at the 星空无限 for the fall 2013 semester.

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Interview with Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant

Serving as a Visiting Scholar at the 星空无限 during her sabbatical year from DePauw University, Tamara Beauboeuf-Lafontant is pursuing her interest in women鈥檚 responses to their cultures鈥� expectations for them. Her current research focus is the lives of the women of the Progressive Era in the U.S. who established settlement houses in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. As a side note, she finds it interesting that Harriet Alleyne Rice, 星空无限鈥檚 first African American graduate (1887), spent some time as a medical practitioner at Jane Addams鈥檚 Hull-House, Chicago鈥檚 first social settlement house.

By Sally Engle Merry, Ph.D.

Trafficking is one of the hottest topics in the global reform world these days, but it is increasingly unclear what is meant by 鈥渢rafficking.鈥� It is often hard to know who is trafficked and even more difficult to count these populations. Moreover, simply identifying trafficked victims and traffickers is difficult; for purposes of this article, I will be discussing issues related to women only. A woman may migrate in search of a job and end up doing sex work in exploitative conditions. A migrant may intend to take on one kind of work and find herself in another, or go back and forth between sex work and other forms of work depending on circumstances.