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dc.contributor.advisorHempel, Lynn
dc.contributor.authorCasey, Emma Elizabeth
dc.contributor.committeememberOpsal, Tara
dc.contributor.committeememberRoberts, Anthony
dc.contributor.committeememberZahran, Sammy
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-06T10:24:28Z
dc.date.available2021-09-06T10:24:28Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.description2021 Summer.
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references.
dc.description.abstractThis study seeks to advance understanding of how anti-trafficking organization websites construct victims' agency, and to engage in critical analyses of these constructions. Using content analysis of 264 websites for organizations which advocate for adult victims of human trafficking in the United States, I inductively identify themes in the ways victimhood and agency are portrayed. The use of 'survivor stories', definitions, images, and relational comparisons with other actors were several of the most common ways in which organizations represented victimhood, and I find that the majority of organizations construct victims' agency as insufficient and misused for self-advocacy. To interpret my findings, I turn to neo-institutional theory to understand how victims' agency is constructed, and patterned in the same way, across the majority of anti-trafficking organizations.
dc.format.mediumborn digital
dc.format.mediummasters theses
dc.identifierCasey_colostate_0053N_16634.pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10217/233694
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherColorado State University. Libraries
dc.relation.ispartof2020- CSU Theses and Dissertations
dc.rightsCopyright of the original work is retained by the author.
dc.subjectagency
dc.subjectneo-institutional theory
dc.subjectvictimhood
dc.subjecthuman trafficking
dc.subjectadvocacy
dc.subjectUnited States
dc.titleVictimhood and actorhood: constructions of agency in anti-trafficking advocacy
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thesis.degree.disciplineSociology
thesis.degree.grantorColorado State University
thesis.degree.levelMasters
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Arts (M.A.)


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