Human Trafficking And The Exploitation Of Humans

“Human trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, and the transport of people within countries for sexual exploitation, forced labor, and/or organ donating.” (Gale) “Slavery is the condition in which one or more persons is owned as property by another and is under the owner’s control.” (American Heritage Dictionary) Trafficked people who are often regarded as disposable, are often used for these various reasons. Although, many believe slavery ended with the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery still exists in 2017. In order to understand that human trafficking is a form of slavery, one needs to examine what it is, the effects, and the solutions.

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

“Globalization influences human trafficking as traffickers take advantage of new transparent borders, broadband communication, and economic upheaval to prey on those most vulnerable … people are largely defined by their economic worth, and since the most vulnerable have only their bodies to sell (labor … sex) … human beings become commodities and victims” (Burke 2013). Additionally, chapter four defines population and migration as an explanation for human trafficking. As the world’s population increases dramatically, there are many poor and vulnerable individuals who are forced to find a way to survive. “Traffickers are resourceful, inventive, and opportunistic, and can find a way to manipulate … population growth … there is an increase in the supply of potential victims who traffickers can exploit and from whom they can profit” (Burke 2013). Victims are driven into human trafficking because they are unable to sustain themselves living in poverty, or are vulnerable as an immigrant or refugee.

Over the last several years, the issue of human trafficking has been compared with the slave trade. This is because both are focused on taking someone against their will and forcing them to engage in demeaning activities. Yet, the practices of modern traffickers are different from slave traders. To fully understand the similarities and disparities requires contrasting them with one another. The combination of these factors will provide specific insights about the two. (Bales, 2010)

Constant terror, abuse, long days and Isolation. These are the feelings human trafficking victims endure while being held captive and deprived of every basic human right (Behnke 15). When speaking of the term “slavery”, most would think of slaves from past centuries who were brought to North America and were abusively forced to work. However, slavery is not an issue of the past centuries. “Human Trafficking is the term that is used today for modern-day slavery” (Hart 4). Human trafficking manifests through various types of labor exploitation along with sexual exploitation and it is a rapidly increasing problem due to lack of awareness, education and law reinforcement.

No nation is immune from human trafficking. Even the most powerful nations are not immune from modern day slavery.The main contributors to human trafficking are governmental corruption, economic and social crisis within each nation's borders.Globalization is the development of an increasingly integration marked especially by free trade that transcends nation-state boundaries. Human trafficking represents a highly and interconnected world because as the world evolves and people become more connected, the transfer of people both voluntarily and coerced is becoming more prevalent. Human trafficking is a very lucrative business that extends beyond nation-state boundaries Human trafficking represents a highly and interconnected world because it is tightly connected to the worlds economy, and ironically is caused by the gap of the wealthy and poor even though it has been present for centuries the government is just beginning to address this common problem.. Globalization seems to have played a major role in the rise of sex slavery and the sex trade but has also played major roles in efforts to stop it.

There are several factors to why human trafficking exists: poverty, governmental instability, natural disasters, addiction, and organized crime are just a few. Although there certainly are men victimized into trafficking (particularly forced labor), women and children are the most vulnerable to trafficking. Generally, those who become prey to traffickers are poor, weak, ill-educated, or isolated woman (3). Some recruiters befriend teens and adults with the intent of exploiting them. Deceived with the promise of a better life, young women travel with them into unknown territories. Once they reach their destination, traffickers burn their passports and immediately force them into sexual labor. Raped and beaten, girls are chained to beds and are repeatedly forced to serve up to forty men a day. In several low income communities, fathers and mothers will sell their children due to an overwhelming amount of

Human trafficking is a form of modern slavery where people profit from the control and exploitation of others. Although slavery is commonly thought to be a thing of the past, human trafficking still exists today throughout the United States and globally when traffickers use force, fraud, or to control other people for the purpose of engaging in commercial sex or forcing them to provide labor

Human Trafficking is the fastest increasing criminal industry in today's world, coming in second after drug-trade. Human Trafficking has been tracked all the way back to when the Mesutopians when they used these things for their culture. So what is human trafficking? Commonly called “modern-day slavery” is illegal trade of human beings for forced labor or for exploration. Children and women living in poverty are the ones who usually get trafficked. Some of these people sell their body for the money to help their family. An approximate of 17,500 foreigners are trafficked each year in the United States alone which is a lot. Human Trafficking is a near-guarantee of death because of HIV and AIDS women are injected and infected

Human trafficking happens all over the world no matter what country you live in. Every year at least 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children are bought, forced, and sold into human trafficking. Law enforcement is trying to make this statistic go down by trying hard to prevent human trafficking not only in the United States but also in other countries.

Human Smuggling and trafficking continues to be a worldwide plague that has been, thus far been largely ignored by the international community. The paramount reason human trafficking and smuggling has festered and grown roots and spread globally. It started as a grassroots effort on the local level where women and girls (it affects boys as well) would be used and sold for sex. Eventually, greed and corruption tagged along for the ride and at that point the crimes became an organized enterprise. At that point the crimes grew exponentially and spread worldwide and infested every crevice and nook on earth, no matter how small and insignificant it may. A stellar example of this the systematic rape, torture and killing of women of Yazidi Christian women in Iraq and the other region of the Middle East. The ideology behind ISIS would be jihad and anti-Western propaganda, however, whether the motivation be money, drugs, or as in human smuggling, illegal immigration, the world at large must annihilate it.

Human trafficking is a worldwide issue that continues to pose problems to many countries including the United States of America. As technology continue to improve, it is very easy for a pimp or trafficker to sit in one state and connect with a victim in another state. People are been trafficked for many reasons, one of which is sex. As victims of sex trafficking suffers with emotional, physical, sexual and psychological abuse and manipulation, they are often afraid to report their traffickers or pimps to law enforcement. This is because of the lack of trust and fear of prosecution. Despite numerous laws that have been put in place to help victims of human trafficking reintegrate into the society, law enforcement agencies continue to treat human trafficking victims as criminals rather than identifying and helping these victims.

Though it may be receiving more attention in recent years, it could be argued that the complete magnitude of human trafficking is still not fully comprehended. Professor of Epidemiology, Rezaeian Mohsen, has stated that, “The ultimate intention of human trafficking is to give illegitimate power to a human being in order to force another human being to be a subject of modern slavery i.e. prostitution, sexual exploitation, forced labor, slavery, etc.” (Mohsen, 2016, p.36). This type of illegitimate power has the opportunity to thrive in a global economy where minimizing costs and maximizing profits is the ultimate goal. Globalization and regional integration have contributed to an environment in which human trafficking is not only the

Everyone might have heard news about human trafficking, but have you ever known that it came almost countries in the world nowadays? Human trafficking is the trade of human in which the sexual slavery and forced labor are two common objectives of human trafficking and the number of victim also rises every year. Therefore, the organizations in volved with this problem should handle with it in the most appropriate ways, however,we need to know the factors that to influence human trafficking. The three main cause of human trafficking are porverty, problems in economic and people lack of

In article 3, paragraph (a) of The Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, human trafficking is defined as the “recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation,” which includes “the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs.” This protocol was drafted and signed in the 2000 and became effective in 2003 but the issue of human trafficking can be traced back to the start of the Trans-Atlantic Slave trade that involved the transportation of persons from Africa (mostly from central and western regions of the continent) to the Americas including North and South America as well as the Caribbean. It existed between three locations across the Atlantic thus becoming known as the Triangular Trade Route. In order to tackle the issue at hand, we must first acknowledge that human trafficking has become a widespread problem across the globe and is not limited to one certain geographical region but that the issue continues to cross the borders from one