Estimating Trafficking of Myanmar Women for Forced Marriage and Childbearing in China

  • Courtland Robinson, Casey Branchini, and Lisa Weissberg

Summary

In 2017, the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health’s Center for Humanitarian Health partnered with the Kachin Women’s Association Thailand to conduct a mixed methods study (combining qualitative and quantitative research methods) in Kachin State and Northern Shan State in Myanmar, and Yunnan Province in China. The study seeks to estimate the prevalence of trafficking for forced marriage and childbearing among women and girls from Myanmar (specifically Kachin State and Shan State) to China (specifically Yunnan Province), as well as to improve understanding of the migration patterns, including risk and protective factors to relating to force, coercion, and trafficking.

Citation

Robinson, Courtland, Casey Branchini, and Lisa Weissberg. Estimating Trafficking of Myanmar Women for Forced Marriage and Childbearing in China. Report. December 2018.

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