Post-Trafficking Livelihoods in Nepal: Women, Sexuality and Citizenship, 2010-2012

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.This is a qualitative data collection. The aims of the project were to research the intersections of sexuality, citizenship and pro-poor policy making for trafficked women upon their return to their home country of origin, Nepal. Here anti-trafficking advocacy is highly visible and together with the recent success of the pro-democracy movement and moves to create a Constituent Assembly are opening up debates on citizenship, governance, sexuality and pro-poor development. The aims of the project were: 1. To examine the role of sexuality and citizenship in livelihood strategies, focusing particularly on the experiences of diverse groups of returnee trafficked women as new democratic processes, supported by national and transnational communities, are unfolding in Nepal 2. To generate new gendered understandings and research approaches to the relationship between citizenship, sexuality and pro-poor development. This objective involved analysing competing discourses and policies on sexuality, trafficking and emerging models of citizenship as they intersect with pro poor development in Nepal. 3. To examine the professionalisation of activist anti-trafficking networks and the impact of this on grassroots activists/local NGOs' ability to get sexual citizenship on transnational advocacy, donor and national pro-democracy agendas.