Causes Of Forced Labor In Thailand

Human trafficking has been a controversial issue for many years. There are different types of trafficking, which helps makes it a widely diverse issue. In Thailand, traffickers rely on the poor desperate people of other countries as well as their own to fulfill their needs financially, physically, and emotionally. Thailand has various reasons why they use human trafficking; sex exploitation, forced labor, and obtaining their organs for an organ transplant. Sex exploitation has been used by mainly men for a long time. They choose both women and children to violate, sometimes even men. The prettier the woman is the more she is worth. All men, woman, and children could be forced into labor. This varies from what the owner wants from them. People can also choose to go and work for them because they think this is their only way of making money, but they usually do not see much of it. Finally, others purchase them just for their organs. There are very long waiting lists on some organs, by the time one comes about the person in need of the organ has already passed away. There are a number of steps and reasons that are involved in human trafficking. With all of these issues of; sex exploitations, and forced labor, and organ trafficking, the trafficked can become physically and mentally injured.

Researchers found that more than ten thousand people are in forced labor across 90 US cities. These people are forced to work in sweatshops, clean homes, work on farms, or work as prostitutes or strippers. Many of these cases are accumulated in areas with large immigrant populations, like California, New York, and Florida. Most of the victims of forced labor are “imported” from 38 different countries. China, Mexico, and Vietnam top this list of countries (Gilmore 1).

(Hart 7). Domestic servitude and involuntary servitude are similar but in an involuntary servitude situation, “the jobs victims are given are very hard ones, the jobs might even dangerous” (Hart 9). Traffickers of these victims use the usual techniques and manipulate their victims until they are “too afraid to escape” (Hart 7). “Many cases of involuntary servitude occur when victims are promised a better life in another country” (Hart 7). Victims are often too naive and desperate for a better life that they accept offers that seem benevolent but end up trapping them in years of pain and

One of the most unforgivable crimes that occur globally is human trafficking. It is defined as the exploitation of people by recruiting or transporting them through abduction or any forms of deception. There are several different types of human trafficking, but the one that highly occurs around the world is forced labor−where the victims are forced to do what the traffickers want under some form of threat. Forced labor impacts the victims so bad that it takes a lot of time to overcome, and it is not easy to overcome such experiences. These impacts include physical health issues, mental health issues, and the isolation of the victim.

Many state and rebel governments also practice forced labor, with at least 2.2 million people worldwide in state-imposed forms of forced labor. Exploits 90% of the world’s forced laborers. Slaves do not work under the threat of a penalty. “India, which is the worst offender — there are currently 18 and a half million slaves.” Modern day means today. In some cases and in many different cultures, children but particularly girls – that have been sexually violated are no longer accepted in their families or communities because they are seen as tainted. “Modern slavery,” “trafficking in persons,” and “human trafficking” have been used as umbrella terms for the act of recruiting, harboring, transporting, providing, or obtaining a person for compelled labor or commercial sex acts through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. Some people think slavery is bad meanwhile some people thinks its good. Almost 21 million people are victims of forced labour – 11.4 million women and girls and 9.5 million men and boys. Migrant workers and indigenous people are particularly vulnerable to forced

In conditions akin to slavery also live women forced into prostitution in all of Southeast Asia, men and women forced into slave labor in Brazil, Burma, India, Punjab, and finally the children who work often without any compensation in the manufacture of carpets, in brick

Sea Slaves by IAN URBINA talks about the hardships that and forced labor in the fish boating industry in Thailand. Throughout the article Urbina looks through the eyes of Ling Long and his journey through being a Sea Slave, working on fishing boats often being beaten and having his basic human rights taken away such as freedom and food. Ling Long is traded between boats as other captains use him for the same reasons, for forced labor. Urbina also takes a small look into other forced labor such as sex trafficking and discusses how these people get to where they are and how they become forced into it. People are simply looking for work which is easy to find but the hardships fully outweigh the benefits as these people end up working for scraps

“Much of the recent media attention has focused on Thailand, and Thai companies are not only facing scrutiny on using forced labor in the seafood industry, but also in poultry production, for which the EU is the biggest export market. Fourteen workers who escaped a Thai poultry farm in 2016 reported abusive supervisors, long working hours, were only allowed to leave the farm for two hours a week under supervision, and sometimes were forced to sleep next to hatchlings“ (KnowTheChain)

However, this topic has been very controversial since some Thai authorities do not acknowledge these Burmese individuals as victims , rather they acknowledge them as individuals who have been illegally smuggled into Thailand (Gjerdingen 699). This is one of the strongest arguments that Thailand has over not having a responsibility over those being trafficked into their country, because these people actually choose to be trafficked rather than by coercion. Trafficked victims are given assistance not because they choose to be trafficked, but because they were coerced into the system which violates their rights as free people. There is some truth to this statement, because some individuals are lured into being trafficked because of their current country’s poor economic situation (Gjerdingen 718). If a person moves to another country willingly and under illegal circumstances then they are no longer considered as trafficked victims but as illegal immigrants. Therefore they cannot claim the status of refugee and receive protection and rights. This is the only circumstance in which Thailand would not have responsibility over the victims, but it is very difficult to distinguish one from the other, that Thailand might not be able to use this argument as often as it would like. Despite this controversy, it depicts that under the Morality of State Theory there is possibility that states might have an obligation to protect victims of human trafficking, if they are given the status as

Forced labor is an inadmissible form of purposeful human activity in any legal state. At the same time, we have to state that, despite the fact that human rights and freedoms are universally recognized as the highest value, coercion to work is a reality of the 21st century. At present, such phenomenon as forced labor exists and actively evolves both in developing and industrialized states. Until now, no country in the world can declare the absence on its territory of coercion to

The state of social and economic disarray that plagues villages surrounding Thailand makes them easy prey for trafficking. According to Toward Freedom, and organization dedicated to advancement of human rights, peace, justice, enlightenment, and freedom from oppression, “Brothel owners have networks of agents combing the villages for troubled families with daughters, making tempting offers of good jobs in the big cities and resort areas” (“Toward”). The most common scenario for troubled families is that they are in debt and are without proper paying jobs. Families are offered up to an entire year’s salary and are also told their children will be going to a better life. Many families know they can’t support their children and see this as their only option. The economic issue prevalent is not unique to Thailand. According to Asia Times, an organization designed to report on Asian political, economic and business

There are many causes of forced labor. Poverty, lack of education, gender inequality, and violent conflicts are just some of the major ones. Every day more and more children are being affected by forced labor. Innocent children are forced into working because of the living conditions these four factors cause ("Addressing Root Causes").

One of the most recent concerns is human trafficking which is a serious problem in Thailand. It involves Thai fishermen, labour brokers and multinational companies. The poor migrant workers from Myanmar, Cambodia, Laos and Burma have become victims of the

As per the U.S Department of State, “Trafficking in persons,” “human trafficking,” and “modern slavery” are used as umbrella terms to refer to both sex trafficking and compelled labor. Those who turn a blind eye and justify the poor conditions afflicting Chinese workers because the clothes are cheaper, those who justify the miserable salaries paid to immigrants sometimes under menaces of denunciation, like the domestic work employees because they are alien workers, those that vindicate the jail with forced labor because those that are in the jails are criminals, are buying his own chain. The matter is that the

Just imagine getting taken from your home without your consent or knowledge. You don’t know here you’re going or why, but you know it can’t be good. There is a term for this, and it is human trafficking. Human trafficking is the act of stealing a person for some sort of gain, typically financial. You treat this person as a trading tool to get what you want. Thailand is the top destination for human trafficking on the planet. To understand human trafficking as a whole, this seems like the perfect place to analyze.