ABSTRACT
This study was developed in two stages, pilot study and main study. The pilot study was intended to explore issues with conducting international field work with a vulnerable population, which approached with an open and flexible mind-set akin to ethnographic work in anthropology. Analysis of the pilot study data was highly valuable in identifying important issues related to the protection, education, and rehabilitation of human trafficking victims and populations at-risk of human trafficking in Thailand. It made an important change to the main study by shifting to a focus on one central site Development and Education Programme for Daughters and Communities (DEPDC) with the second site Children's Protection and Development Center (CPDC) as a secondary or supplementary site, subsequently still maintaining the two-site case study design as described by Yin and Creswell. Critical theory focuses on race, class, and gender disparities and offered potentially useful lenses for understanding the nature of the work of research sites.
