The research main objectives were to apply survey techniques to evaluate human trafficking prevalence in Belarus, Bulgaria, Moldova, Romania and Ukraine and analyze factors for human trafficking in the five countries. To summarize the research findings, human trafficking prevalence is affected by labour migration rates: this is clearly observed for Moldova. However, labour migration is not the only factor explaining the level of human trafficking: in the cases of Ukraine and Belarus, the human trafficking rates were unexpectedly high given the relatively low labour migration rates.

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