ABSTRACT
Over the past decade, the issue of trafficking in persons, especially women and children, has gained increasing attention at the national, regional, and international levels. In the Mekong sub-region, the socioeconomic and political changes that have taken place in countries like Cambodia and Vietnam in the past decades have been accompanied by greater mobility of people internally as well as across borders. This chapter describes the complexities that surrounded research on trafficking, discusses the challenges in using the Feminist Participatory Action Research (FPAR) methodology in particular sociopolitical contexts, and reflects upon some of the main research findings. An important aim of feminist research is to understand the extent, the dimensions, the forms, and the causes of exploitation and oppression of women. The application of FPAR was challenging in the particular sociopolitical contexts of Cambodia and Vietnam. Specifically, these contexts determine the structure of the society and the degree of openness and control within that society.
