Human Trafficking and Lack of Protection

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the three basic human trafficking markets, both legal and illegal, are (1) the legitimate or conventional market economies such as restaurants, factories and farms, (2) legitimate domestic service economy such as households maids and (3) the criminal economies of the forced sex industry, mostly prostitution. The author points out that, through deception and empty promises, people and even children are shuttled in secret, often illegally and in frightening conditions, to do work, which no one else will do, to places where they often cannot communicate and are forced to work through threats of violence. The paper relates that there are few resources to help these victims and very limited legal protection in the United States and elsewhere. The paper has many long quotations.

Table of Contents
Introduction
The Face of Human Trafficking
The Economic Side of Trafficking
Legal Issues of Human Trafficking
Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Here are just a few statements from women who have been victims of human trafficking and forced prostitution. There are more stories than there are people to write them and more dehumanizing occurrences than most people would even believe. Yet, for the most part the public is not even aware of the situation; even historically, as few people know of the forced prostitution rings that sprang up in the Western United States during the gold rush and even fewer are aware that it happens today, here and all over the world."

Sample of Sources Used:

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• Askew, Marc. "The Traffic in Women: Human Realities of the International Sex Trade." SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia 13.2 (1998): 328.

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