Empirical investigation of international human trafficking routes from Brazil

Abstract

The objective of this article is to highlight the different international routes of human trafficking from Brazil in an analysis study of the social organizations involved in the criminal prosecution process (Federal Police, Federal Public Ministry and Federal Justice), in charge of combating international human trafficking. "The paths" of international traffic were found from an empirical study of flow analysis of the Criminal Justice System, in Brazil, through an exploratory descriptive quantitative and qualitative data research. This article is the result of part of a dense and broader field investigation prepared for the doctoral thesis defended in June 2019; The investigation began in 2016 and ended in 2018, with the processes generated by the fight against human trafficking by the Federal Justice of Brazil, covering the history and production of decisions of actors involved in the fight against human trafficking. human trafficking in the period from 2004 to 2015, without losing sight of the theoretical framework, which is the applied systemic theory. The problem that this article seeks to answer is: how are international routes implemented in international human trafficking processes from Brazil?