Immigrants And Orphans In Southern Sudan

Human trafficking affects our children and our schools more than most realize. It is estimated that more than 200,000 American children are trafficked each year in America. Victims of trafficking often come from vulnerable populations, including migrants, oppressed or marginalized groups, runaways or displaced persons, and the poor (Talati). The children most likely to be targeted by traffickers are those not living with their parents, who are vulnerable to coerced labor exploitation, domestic servitude, or prostitution. Sex traffickers target children because of their vulnerability and gullibility, as well as the market demand for young victims. Studies have shown that it is not just high school children at risk, demonstrating that pimps prey on victims as young as 12 years old. Victims

According to the U.S. State Department, every year 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders. Within these 800,000, women make up 80%, while minors make up 50% (Deshpande et al., 2013). Many people who fall victim to trafficking come from poor nations, unstable political areas, or are homeless. In poor nations such as Africa, diseases such as AIDS have caused many children to lose their parents making them more susceptible to slavery. Slavery offers an opportunity to eat or help to support their families. (Gresens,

Thousands of unreported children are trafficked from Bangladesh to other countries every year (2). Children who are taken by traffickers often come from impoverished or isolated regions. The parents are promised that their children will have a well-paid job or a nice marriage (4). Impoverished and desperate, they trust the offers, which ultimately lead their children to be exploited through trafficking (7).

Shown above, a 9-year-old girl toils under the hot sun, making bricks from morning to night, seven days a week. She was trafficked with her entire family from Bihar, one of the poorest and most underdeveloped states in India, and sold to the owner of a brick-making factory. She has no means of escape, and is unable to speak the local language; the family is isolated and lives in terrible conditions. (Human Trafficking Website, 2007)

Most of them are kidnapped at gunpoint when they are under the intoxicated. Others use drugs to escape the problems associated with poverty and poor living conditions. At the family level, issues such as family conflict, disruption, poverty and dysfunctional families lead to child run away because they are unable to tolerate the environment. They end up becoming homeless therefore they are considered at risk of child sex trafficking. Those in their homes are also at a high risk for exploitation. Lack of adequate parental supervision and monitoring during family conflicts increases the risk of trafficking. In areas where the families are poor, the children are likely to be encouraged to engage in sexual activity to

Imagine being dropped off in a foreign place where you have never been before or even heard of. You have been dropped off with nothing but the clothes on your back and barely speak a word of the language that is spoken there. This is how the Nuer feel when then go to the United States from Sudan for more freedom. Sure the United States may have more opportunities for a better life than Sudan, but it comes with a lot of life-changing events and challenges that the Nuer must face daily. In Nuer Journeys Nuer Lives, Jon Holtzman discusses the challenges the Nuer face and how they overcome them once they have been kicked out of their homes and immigrate to Minnesota in the United States.

In recent years the US has experienced a large influx of migration. Immigrants come from many different countries, races, religions and for many different reasons. One group of immigrants that received national attention is a group from Sudan that has been called “The Lost Boys”. The reason behind the national attention is due to the dramatic circumstances that brought them to America. To understand these circumstances it is important to understand their history. Sudan is the largest country in Africa. It is between two powerful cultural regions, the Islamic north and the Christian south. Africa has more than 400 languages and dialects. There are 597 different ethnic groups with

Reports suggest that majority of young sex trafficking victims are either currently in foster care or have been involved with the child welfare system in the past. In 2013, 60 percent of the child sex trafficking victims recovered as part of a FBI nationwide raid from over 70 cities were children from foster care or group homes. (Saar) Children in foster care often feel as though no one cares for them- many see themselves as only a paycheck for their foster parents. These children crave attention and stability and can be easily seduced by sex traffickers. Furthermore, traffickers will even send one of their girls into group homes to find victims, urging them to come with them by saying that they will have a “family” and financial stability. (Saar) In summary, the current child welfare system makes children feel worthless and in need of stability, making them a much larger target for sex trafficking than non foster care children. Secondly, victims of human trafficking experience emotional and physical suffering that can last a lifetime. Trafficked men, women and children are usually taken to brothels, escort

Teenagers or girls at a younger age are vulnerable from these organizations by trafficking them

In poverty bound places, people have desperation for money and are willing to sell their children into human trafficking to live. Where there is desperation for money, the rich tend to take advantage of that and offer to buy children for cheap prices to do labour work, and usually if the children are not doing labour, they are being sexually exploited. A mother from Cambodia who had sold her daughter says, “Selling my daughter was heartbreaking, but what can I say? It was because of the debt, that's

The children are enslaved as free labor and are of the victims of sexual abuse as well. According to Andrea Bertone and Christina Arnold, founders of the organization Prevent Human Trafficking, “Work for trafficked victims consists of exploitation, debt bondage, low to no wages, excessive hours, unsafe conditions. Often victims see themselves as being no worse off than if they had stayed home” (Arnold 31). Despite the horrible conditions most victims don’t even realize the gravity of their situation and fall into a sense of appeasement.

In Afghanistan there are a group of boys named The Dancing Boys of Afghanistan. They are forced to dance a lot. Many of those boys were being sexually abused. Sexual abuse is a form of child slavery as well. About 2 million children are subjected to childhood prostitution in the global commercial trade. This is done to them through sex trafficking. Those kids are forced to do it

They have known a life worse than death itself. Living in an impoverished community, where most either die young or die trying to make a better life for themselves. The warzone-like environment creates a tolerance for violence. In favour of surviving this hostile environment, the persons must survive their morality; meaning they’ll have to make both inhumane and humane decisions. Quite often these decisions are based on a potential threat to themselves. However, the extent people are willing to commit acts to increase their chances of survival will reflect their morals. Many of the victims are lured into the human trafficking rings are done so through family members; usually a male relative (father or uncle) or an older sibling. A few of these include kidnapping, the sale of children by parents, false marriages, false economic opportunities or sham job or educational advertisements (Financial Crisis and Human Trafficking). However, most of the victims vulnerable to trafficking are those who are migrating from one country to another. The biggest cause for

Imagine this, a young boy being wrenched from his sobbing mother's arms by local militants, kicking and screaming. These mothers are forced to watch their child being taken away, all the while knowing it is the last time they will ever get to see their child. These children are then forced to enter violent and dangerous groups where they often must hurt and kill other human beings. Some of these children are even forced to become military sex slaves for these organizations, constantly being abused by their captors until it becomes normal for them. This may come as a shock to you in the great country of America, but it is a common sight in countries around the world. There are more than 300,000 such children around the world. These children are as young as seven years old when they are taken into these horrible groups. Some of these children aren’t even brought to these groups against their will, but are lured into gangs during their impressionable years as a youth.

The sex trafficking of boys is often hidden, reflecting cultural taboos in many parts of the world. In Afghanistan and coastal Sri Lanka, boys are more likely than girls to be subjected to prostitution; in Mexico and Central America, boy migrants are vulnerable to commercial sexual exploitation en route to the United States; boys in Southeast Asia are exploited in prostitution; to a lesser extent, men are victims of sex trafficking; in recent years, Brazilian men were identified in forced prostitution in Spain and men were identified as sex trafficking victims in the United States. (Male Trafficking Victims).