The Issue Of Human Smuggling

According to the Maltese Embassy of the United States, Malta serves as a trafficking destination for women and children who are subjected to forced labor, including in restaurants, private households and in unskilled or semi-skilled labor. With regards to our local issue, African mirgants whom are labelled as ‘irregular immigrants’ are directly being trafficked in the country’s informal labor market. Between 2003 and 2011 there were 25 reported victims 24 of which were women all of foreign dissent. Most of them arrived illegally from Russia, Ukraine and Romania, Nigeria and even China, no child victims or Maltese nationals have been reported. There has even been a case were two of these already mentioned victims have been re-trafficked

Imagine being taken from the comfort of your house and family. Then envision that you are forced to either inject or ingest as drugs to give sexual pleasure to one person while the other reaps financial benefits. You are experiencing such atrocity at the same moment in which your loved ones are mourn your loss. Eventually, you are unrecognizable and affected by traumatizing experiences. The effects that you frequently feel are numb and now you are suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder. This is the reality that many endure on daily basis. It is caused by the constant practice of human trafficking.

According to estimates, more than 700,000 people are trafficked every year for the purposes of sexual exploitation and forced labour. They are transported across borders and sold into modern-day slavery. Over the past decade, trafficking in human beings has reached epidemic proportions. No country is immune. Clawson (2009) discusses how the search for

Although, smuggling and trafficking involve both humans, human trafficking differs from human smuggling because it is “compared to a modern day form of slavery”, involving “the exploitation of unwilling people through force” (Schmalleger, 2012, pg.605). Capturing, arresting and prosecuting human trafficking kingpins wouldn’t eliminate the problem, but rather encourage aspiring cartels to continue a “legacy”. However, fighting human trafficking is perhaps the most dangerous and difficult problem because of drugs and weapons, but nevertheless a rewarding accomplishment because “women and children compromise the largest group of victims” who are “often physically and emotionally abused” (Schmalleger, 2012, pg.607). A solution to this problem would probably be awareness, where the Federal government communicates to states, cities and communities to report suspicious activity. Therefore, proper help can be admitted to the victims by allowing new identities to be assigned; in addition, this would lower fraud and provide

Human smuggling is one of the fastest growing global crimes but it is hard to decipher between human smuggling and trafficking in person which is also a fast growing intercontinental crime. Human smuggling is “the facilitation, transportation, attempted transportation or illegal entry of a person(s) across an international border, in violation of one or more country’s laws, either clandestinely or through deception, such as the use of fraudulent documents.” During the process of smuggling some of the people are going voluntarily, to meet with their family, or to relocate to a better environment. Once the people reach they destination, they’re no longer in contact with the smuggler that brought them there for

This work problematizes current these approaches to trafficking as a “law and order” by reframing the problem of trafficking as a global migratory response to current globalizing socioeconomic trends, a plea for more comprehensive approaches to trafficking. As Anne Gallagher explains, trafficking lies at one extreme end of the emigration continuum , a call to account for macro factors that encourage, induce or compel migration. Traffickers, being opportunity-seeking by nature, simply take advantage of the resulting vulnerabilities to make a profit. A call for a broader view of human trafficking as a product of the larger socioeconomic forces that feed the push and pulls factors toward risky labor practices in our globalized economy is warrant.

The trafficking of people is the fastest growing and most profitable criminal activity after drug and arms trafficking. This alone tells us how dreadful our world is. The Syrian Civil War has generated around four million refugees throughout the course of the war. Refugees seek need asylum have instead fallen victim to abusive traffickers and other criminals. Since 2011, reports of a series of kidnappings have emerged from Sinai and the victims are refugees that are taken in for ransom and human trafficking. Egypt has reinforced security operations in Sinai in support of United Nations.

Since there is so little data for human trafficking, this paper pursues an analysis of the economics of human trafficking alongside labor migration in several different regions. Mahmoud and Trebesch

There needs to be a reformation of the guidelines to human trafficking because it is too common for people’s rights to be taken away to feed the greed of another individual. Not only is it morally wrong, but it is illegal in every country. Reformation needs to happen in a myriad of ways so that the end of human trafficking can become a reality. As far as the need for policies and guidelines to be reformed, there is no current concrete asylum option for refugees that have been trafficked and are able to escape or be freed from captivity by law enforcement or another agency. In April 2006 the UNHCR published Guidelines on the application of the Refugees Convention to people who have been trafficked. While there is little doubt that trafficked people are subjected to serious violations of their basic rights and interests, the applicability of the Convention is problematic because they do not fit easily into any of the categories recognized by the Convention as giving rise to an entitlement to refugee status. The Guidelines adopt the definition of trafficking contained in the Palermo Protocol to the UN Convention on Transnational Organized Crime (2000). The various elements of the refugee definition are then

How would you feel to know that you just paid money for you to be human smuggled and or trafficked? Thinking that you are coming to the United States to start a land of opportunity. Say you are in another country answering a job ad for the United States and to find out when you get here, it’s a sick joke. Unfortunately, the issue of human smuggling and trafficking is a sick game that ruins the lives of many innocent women and it’s going to take a strong investigation to put a stop to those men that are capturing these young women from all over the country.

Combating Human Trafficking: Gaps in Policy and Law (Mishra, 2015) is a book discussing the definitions of human trafficking, including the one from Palermo Protocol. Mishra believes the term “human trafficking” today is being generalized, which is not a good start in dealing with the situation. He also explains several perspectives to eliminate human trafficking like spatial focus and person focus. His analysis covers different types of trafficking such as forced labor in different fields, forced child labor, bridge trafficking, organ trafficking, and migration trafficking etc. Afterwards, he explores the pull and push factors from the perspective of the trafficked

It was reported by United Nations that more than 300,000 migrants have set out from North America and the Middle East on the Mediterranean Sea for Europe this year, which is more by 40 percent than in all of the last year. In addition to that, “on any given day now, hundreds of people, perhaps thousands, are drifting in ships or clinging to boats that are little more than inflatable rafts and in a recent 24hour period, the Greek coast guard rescued a thousand people in the Aegean Sea” (Borgia ,2015). And those are children and old people, Middle-aged parents with their possessions and their kids on their backs, professionals who have left their jobs and homes behind, and laborers whose neighborhoods and industries have collapsed in wars (Borgia

Forced to flee their country because of persecution, war, or violence, a refugee is left vulnerable to trafficking and abuse. Often women and children are known to be the main targets of traffickers. They are bought into the system through false promises such as promises for the better future, then they are exploited in the worst ways possible like prostitution or sexual exploitation, forced labour, slavery and removal of organs. This so-called "business" gained $31.6 billion of international trade per annum in 2010.It is alerting to know that human trafficking is known to be one of the fastest-growing activities of trans-national criminal organizations.

Trafficking of persons is the illegal practice of procuring human beings for unpaid work, slavery and or other forms of exploitations in physically abusive settings and locations from which they are not allowed to leave and return to their countries of residence (Danailova-Trainor, 2010). Trafficking of persons is a criminal activity as it deprives the victims of their fundamental human rights and their human dignity. The trafficking is done across the borders of the various countries of origin and those of destination. To curb this vice, the border point control staff has a great responsibility in its prevention. The border point security personnel’s have been identified as the major actors in the prevention and eradication of human trafficking (Hetzer, 2007).

The modern form of migrant trafficking emerged as a concomitant of the rapid globalization of world economies in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when technological innovation allowed for greater ease of movement of information, goods, and people. In addition to technological advancements, economic interdependence brought about by cross-border flows of commodities, services and capital created new markets in industries like resource extraction, textiles, and service, among others. While globalization laid much of the groundwork for development in the 20th century, it also played a role in determining the outcomes of issues like the first and second World Wars, from which many of the first major modern national security threats arose. These emerging concerns about national security and “migrant threat” to domestic well-being caused many states to and adopt more restrictive policies regarding the movement of individuals across state boundaries. In addition to the increased restrictions after the first and second World Wars, the restructuring of borders during decolonization and the dissolution of the former USSR created arbitrary, formal boundaries for movement that failed to account for existing trade patterns and social ties across borders.