Overcome The Barriers After Trafficking Experience
This essay will examine the case study of 15 years old Gambian girl who was trafficked in the United Kingdom on the pretence that she would have the chance for better education and brighter future, but was forced to work as a housemaid. I would try to give a plan in order to help her overcome the barriers she could potentially face and live a positive life after that.
Not only the incident, but also I will try to show the importance of effective communication, teamwork and the weight of cultural differences in individual circumstances. Generally speaking we have a young girl who was deceived that she would have a better life outside Gambia and trafficked into the dark immigrant reality in the United Kingdom. Child trafficking is a serious issue in the United Kingdom followed in numbers by Vietnam, Albania, Eritrea and Afghanistan. Also high in numbers are countries that are influenced by conflicts such as: Syria, Sudan, Iran and Pakistan. More than half of the children that are being trafficked are aged under eighteen (18) and are being used for forced labor, prostitution or criminality. Northern France is considered to be the main place where the children are being trafficked from, to all across Europe and mostly in the United Kingdom. “The number of children referred to the UK Government’s National Referral Mechanism (NRM), which identifies victims of human trafficking, increased to 1,278 in 2016, the highest figure on record, according to the latest figures from the National Crime Agency. ” (May Bulman 2017).
In our case study the young child is currently living with a foster family and they are the only people that she tries to communicate with avoiding not only her classmates, but also the teachers in the new school that she visits. This combined with the cultural differences that are not common for the United Kingdom, probably led to her anxiety disorder. Many of the reasons why children are anxious about are a normal part of different stages of growing up.
For example the most common anxiety in kids aged from eight months to three years is separation anxiety, which means when they are separated from their parents they become clingy or start crying. Anxiety is seen like a problem, when it becomes part of children lifestyle. Youngsters cant always recognise when they feel anxios or have the most common symphtoms like: not going out with friends, bad sleep, not confident enough, finding it hard to concentrete, problems with eating and always being negative, thinking that bad things are on their way. As long as the foster parents are the only people the girl in our study talks to, it could be seen as an oppurtunity to overcome her anxiety and help her. It would be suggested for the parents to contact psyhology agencies and attend them atleast twice a week, first only the two of them and in the process with the kid.
