ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on three particular dimensions of personal (in)security: suicide, domestic violence, migration and mobility. It also focuses on two groups in particular: women and indigenous peoples. The chapter concentrates on three subcategories of the migration and mobility umbrella with direct implications on personal security in the Barents Region: in- and out-migration; human trafficking; and the ongoing global refugee crisis. Personal security is one indicator of human security, linked to other forms of insecurity: political, economic, health, food, environmental and community. The gendered dimensions of personal security affect both men and women. Studies isolating economic development as an indicator of a country's level of human security elide gender or racial inequality from their analyses. Human trafficking, in particular, evokes imagery of informal and illicit economies where women are victims of coercive and forced out-migration. As Bromfield makes clear, all Barents states have a notable problem with human trafficking.
