Human Trafficking Sociology

As extensive humans being have been on earth, there has been some method of awfulness present. Have you ever felt alone with nobody there to help you? Have you ever felt the pressure to preform or face getting beat or threatened to be killed? This is a life that people all around the world have to face because of human trafficking. Different types of human cruelty include parental and spousal abuse, genocide, racial discrimination, and bullying. These are all techniques of mistreatment that stand out in one’s mind. However, there is one type of mistreatment that people may forget is human trafficking. Human trafficking is a horrible association where victims are controlled and abused by others. This type of growing business of trafficking has become a difficulty that concerns practically each country in the world. Some countries are making changes though it has seen small to no achievement. The craving for people to kidnap innocent people and put them in exertion for their own revenue needs to be put to end. Human trafficking is problematic because of the manner it destroys innocent people and the demand for such trafficking to be a force it produces a huge problem that needs to become a top priority for governments around the world. Trafficking innocent people is a criminal industry that revenues from enslaving people for sexual servitude and forced labor. There is absence of resources towards this matter that makes defined statistics almost difficult to gather. Human trafficking has a massive absence of awareness. Without funding for human trafficking makes working towards a solution very difficult. Without correct funds to place an end towards human trafficking. This demonstrate that there are many methods to get into the trafficking business and that people should be conscious that there are individuals out there that will take a harmless person.

Human trafficking has been a long standing issue, but in recent years it has grown rapidly. The prevalent problem in the United States surrounding human trafficking is that most assume it is only happening in other countries. Dale Archer, a board-certified Psychiatrist, acknowledges that human trafficking is formally explained by the UNODC, or the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime to be the taking of people by fraud, force or deception, with a goal of exploiting the person. There are several different parts to human trafficking such as forced labor, sex trafficking, servitude, slavery, and forced organ donation. It accumulates over 32 million dollars a year, which makes it one of the largest illegal activities in the world. Surprisingly,

Trafficking is a global problem and will probably always be a problem. It has been around for centuries and one can only tell when it will ever stop. Though there may never be an end to human trafficking, knowledge is the ultimate power and people working together to fight human trafficking, lives can be saved.

Human trafficking exists in several nations all around us. No nation, including the United States is exempt from human trafficking. There may be factors that create unique anti-trafficking issues and obstacles for each nation, but the characteristics are all the same or very similar worldwide. These characteristics are how the trafficking is conducted, how the victims are kidnapped, the percentage of victims, the gender of the victims, and the percentage of each gender in different trafficking situations. The situations include children, adults, male, and female victims. The situations the victims fall into are pornography, forced labor, sex slaves, prostitution, child sex tourism, and many more. These are the issues and key points made by the authors to persuade the reader to agree with their position.

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.

Is slavery over? Did the Civil War finally resolve the everlasting problem of slavery in the United States? The answer is resolutely and unwaveringly ‘no’. Slavery is not over and continues to thrive in an underground organized business with many cultural factors allowing it to flourish. Some of the underlying roots of the development of sex trafficking is misogyny and exploitation of the weak. Society as a whole considers the issue of sex-work a no-talk zone, and slavery sex work as something that can’t be talked about at all. Turner (2013) says “We all share responsibility for the rabid consumerism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, and indifference to the plight of the impoverished that drive human trafficking”.

There have been many attempts to address human trafficking overall, and two of the attempts are the TVPA, and the Safe Harbor laws. “Since passage of the TVPA, 49 states have enacted legislation criminalizing human trafficking” (Farrell et al., 2012). However, despite the attempts to combat this crime, reports indicate that few cases of human trafficking have been identified and prosecuted. Meaning that “federal and state anti-human trafficking laws are not being enforced by government officials and that law enforcement agencies are not working together to confront the problem” (Farrell et al., 2012). Though there is not enough research on the exact practices that would improve the ability of local law enforcement to identify, investigate,

because we will never know what prostitutes, and sex traffickers go through in order to resolve the issue around the world. More importantly the methods that will be used, and implied will be the following: respondent driven sampling, such as collecting data on prostitutes, recorded interviews, sex surveys, etc. just to name a few.

Around the world human trafficking happens around us without us noticing or realising what is happening. Modern-day slavery exists around the world and it is known today as human trafficking or trafficking in persons.

Around the world human trafficking happens around us without us noticing or realising what is happening. Modern-day slavery exists around the world and it is known today as human trafficking or trafficking in persons.

When watching a horror film we are submitted to the momentary feeling of tension and unrealism. Deep inside we know it’s not real and the movie will soon be over. “The Jammed” (2007), “Redlight” (2009), “The Whistleblower” (2010), “Not My Life” (2010), all have two things in common. The first, they are all based on true events of surviving victims of human trafficking; the second is they are films recommended by the (UN.GIFT) an international organization for human trafficking prevention and awareness. So when it comes to human trafficking what role are we each playing in real life?

Human trafficking is form of present-day slavery for sexual or labor exploitations for money. The most common forms of human trafficking are sex trafficking, forced labor, and debt bondage. An average “slave” cost about $90 dollars. 80% of human trafficking involves sex trafficking, 20% involves labor exploitation. About 3,287 people are sold and kidnapped into human trafficking everyday. There are about 20 to 30 million people today that are slaves. 80% of the people that are slaves are women, and 50% of them are children.

Human trafficking is modern day slavery that involves the process of illegally transporting people from one area to another, either by consent or by coerce, resulting in being pressured to sexual exploitation and forced labor. There are two different beliefs to which human trafficking originates from. One side claims that it all started through the slave trade where Africans were taken hostage by slave traders and brought into America. Others state that human trafficking originally began during the 1700s of children forced labor. Human trafficking is a problem in all countries, but developing countries holds the biggest concern. There is a larger percentage of people living in poverty with various types of conflicts and obstacles at developing countries compared to other areas. People whose path are under the state of indigence often try to seek a way to survive, and are generally lured into the human trafficking industry, however there are also victims which were forced to enter. Domestic, Foreign, and International are the three different categorizations of human trafficking.

Not only traffickers are reason for the continuous human trafficking and slavery, but also lack of awareness and action let these problems continue.

This research paper dives into the world of human trafficking looking into key details about the ethical implications of human trafficking as well as proposed solutions. With information such as statistics, methods of trafficking and the ending of trafficking that is found from websites from organizations that are dedicated to ending trafficking, the involvement of all countries are cited as necessary in ending this worldly crime. Information was found through University of South Florida’s library system and websites with information pertaining to their organization’s attempts at ending human trafficking. Articles utilized include Unintended Effects of United Nations Intervention, From Bush to Obama: Rethinking Sex and Religion in the U.S. Initiative to Combat Human Trafficking, Human Trafficking, and Supply and Demand: Human Trafficking in the Global Economy. In addition to these scholarly articles, websites used include the organizational websites of UNODC and UNICEF.