Forced Labor And Sex Trafficking

human trafficking is one of the fastest illegal trade in the world especially in countries such as China. Human trafficking is more of a modernized type of slavery that involves fraud, force, or having the trafficker persuade their victims to do something by using force or threats. Many victims of human trafficking victims fall prey to this type of crime by being sold by family, abducted, tricked, or lured in by false jobs advertisement, and many more. Human trafficking is a booming illegal business where the criminals can exploit women and child for services that involve labor or sex which can also be accessed on the internet. When these victims become involved in human trafficking, they become high risk to abuse, drug use, and sexually transmitted diseases. A lot of these sex trafficking victims are forced to work in places such via online ads or escort services, fake massage parlors, residential brothels, on the streets, hotels and motels, and sweatshops.

Images of foreign lands usually conjure up when the thoughts of human sex trafficking come to one 's mind. The United States of America is not immune to this type of horrific behavior. America is the land of the free and yet something as awful as human sex trafficking occurs in our very own backyard each and everyday. According to the Department of Homeland Security the definition of human trafficking is “modern day slavery that involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act” (“What Is Human Trafficking?”). In this research paper the reader will experience the savagery that comes with human sex trafficking and how it has expanded in the United States over recent years. Within this research

Throughout the 21st century, the number of human beings being capture and put into sex trafficking and prostitution has risen. In 2013, about 270,000 young boys, girls, and women were forced into human trafficking in the United States alone and estimated 20.9 million in the world. The UN has also estimated that nearly 4,000,000 are trafficked each year. UNICEF has estimated that as many as 50% of all trafficking victims worldwide are minors and that as many as two thirds of those adolescents are at some point forced into the sex trade. This is a 52 billion dollar industry. Two kids are sold every minute, 120 per hour. In other cases mothers of these children would sell them off for money due to financial reason, which

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A challenge that I took interest in is the horrifying problem that women and young girls face as victims of human trafficking and sex slavery. Women and young girls make up 98% of victims of trafficking for exploitation. Human trafficking and sex slavery is a form of modern slavery, in which traffickers profit from the control and exploitation of others. It is a multi-billion industry. Traffickers use control of others for the purpose of engaging in sexual activities and or forcing others to provide labor services against their will. Traffickers use many manipulative tactics to trap their victims in horrific situations such as using violence, threats, deception, and bondage.

Forced labour is when a person is made to work without voluntarily offering to provide labour or services. This form of trafficking usually occurs due to the trafficker’s use of force and threats. A person may voluntarily work in the first place, however, when they wish to stop and leave the area where they work, the employer prevents them from doing so. Some examples include South Asian and African boys being trafficked as camel jockeys, Chinese women being trafficked into garment factories and Eastern European women being trafficked into

Forced Labor and Labor Exploitation is one of the main faces of human trafficking. Most individual trafficked or smuggled are for the purposes of forced labor and labor exploitation. Even though several undocumented employees hired or recruited by United States employers agree to position with poor living conditions, long hours, poor working conditions, and unlawful wages. The enormous

From July 4, 1776, the United States has always prided itself on the copious freedoms granted to its citizens. Freedom of speech, the press, and to bear arms are just a small testament to how well the U.S. has maintained its liberties for over two centuries. Noted internationally as a socially progressive nation that sets unmarked precedents in breaking social barriers and razing oppression, the U.S. unfortunately falls short in protecting ones right to rule over their own body. Prostitution, the exchanging of sexual services for payment, has been specifically outlawed by the State of New York. This direct targeting of the sex trade within New York leaves many people unprotected under the law, both in consensual prostitution and nonconsensual human sex trafficking, while greatly eliminating the potential tax revenue that would be generated. Prostitution, when involving consenting adults, is a victimless crime and when criminalized, it forces a specific set of morals on everyone within that jurisdiction no matter of their personal beliefs.

The sociological problem that this paper is addressing is that individuals living in poverty are more likely to be trafficked than those who do not live in poverty. The following research will address definitions of common terms that will be used in the paper, as well as background information, facts, statistics, and a conclusion with how all of this information relates to the sociological problem in discussion. The terms that need to be defined for this research are: human trafficking and poverty. Human trafficking, also known as forced labor, is best described as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of threat or use of force… for the purpose of exploitation” (Juergensmeyer, 2012, p. 868).

According to Aguilar-Millan, “behind drugs and guns, human trafficking is the third largest illicit global trade and reportedly the fastest growing” (Aguilar-Millan, 2008). Because of its accelerated growth rate, hubs and hot spots are continuing to pop up all over the country. The main victims of trafficking are immigrants and due to this fact, the crime thrives in the states with large immigrant populations such as Florida, Texas, New York, and California. “More than 90% of all forced labor occurs in five major areas of the U.S. economy: (a) the prostitution and sex sector (46%), (b) the domestic service professions (27%), (c) agricultural professions (10%), (d) sweatshop or factory settings (5%), and (e) restaurant and hotel settings (4%). Across these five major areas, traffickers commonly use force, fraud, and coercion to exploit their victims (Free the Slaves & Human Rights Center, 2004)” (Stotts Jr., 2009). Below is a pie chart that represents the

Migrant workers may relocate between countries illegally with no visa or on the working visa that may be give temporarily to access the country and continue their stay after it expired with no protection. In addition, local potential employees can be still victims if factories use employment agencies to find new or more employees because human trafficking does not require transportation across the country boarders. Those agencies may impose excessive recruitment fees on workers what makes them to be bonded to the agency. Also, another way of exploiting workers by agencies is when they receive payments from the factories, deduct processing fees and then pay little or nothing to the workers that have been employed through the agency.

Although sex trafficking is more widely publicized in the media it is not the only form of trafficking; domestic, food and care services, garment, and agricultural slavery make up to 46.2% of trafficking cases (United

Through the years Human Trafficking- Domestic Servitude have become a more prevalent issue as travel improves as well as technology, causing more children to be taken from their homes and forced into labor every day. Georgia realizes it plays a part in this problem as it serves as a connector to the middle east and eastern Europe. Georgia also realizes that ethnic conflicts, and the problems that they create, help to not only tear nations apart but also families as well. We also recognize the cost of ethnic wars to the world as civilians are displaced and billions of dollars are lost worldwide each year. To combat these two topics we as a nation have come up with the solutions of heavier consequences for both topics as well as education

While sexual exploitation is the main form of trafficking in Europe and Central Asia, in East Asia and the Pacific it is forced labor. This variety of human trafficking has increased steadily in recent years; around 40% of the victims between 2010 and 2012 were trafficked for this purpose. Immigrants are particularly vulnerable on forced labor, the demand of cheap labor contributes to the illegal trade of humans, just to reduce costs of production. This is the fault of companies who look for low-price labor, without caring about the safety, human, and health conditions of their workers.

Forced Labor is a form of labor trafficking that is often referred to as modern-day slavery. It can be defined as “labour [sic] performed involuntarily and under duress, usually by relatively large groups of people” (The Editors of Encyclopædia Britannica). Labor traffickers accomplish this with the use “of violence, threats, lies, and other forms of coercion to force people to work against their will” (National Human Trafficking Hotline). Forced labor in Thailand is an especially big issue with an estimate of 425,500 people being forced to work with little to no pay and in working conditions that include physical and verbal abuse, forced overtime, lack of holiday time off, and dangerous working conditions.