The Modern Form Of Migrant Trafficking

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.

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

Social service professionals work to address the problem of human trafficking in a number of ways. Social workers are unique in their approach to this issue because they can address it from a number of angles. For example, social workers concentrate on both the individual victim as well as their social and economic situation which distinguishes it from other professions such as counseling (Palmer, 2010). Social workers meet the needs of human trafficking victims according to the principles outlined in the National Association of Social Worker’s Code of Ethics. (Palmer 2010). Nancy Palmer (2010) notes, that despite some similarities, human trafficking victims have “more complex and wide-ranging service needs” than those who suffer from

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.

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.

Slavery has been around for ages. There has always been someone forcing others to do their will. But slavery drags on in modern times, especially today. Modern day slavery, otherwise known as human trafficking, is defined by Encyclopedia Britannica as “...the illegal transport of individuals by force or deception for the purpose of labor, sexual exploitation, or activities in which others benefit financially” (“Human”). Slavery is not an issue of the past. It has waxed and waned throughout history, and will never cease unless something is done to stop it. Human trafficking is a serious issue in the world, the United States, and even in Iowa.

“Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are”(Benjamin Franklin). This quote implies that individuals who are not affected by the felonies or immoral acts done by others, people would not care as much or ignore it whether justice is done to the ones who committed the crime. In addition, people only acknowledge the wrongdoing of others until it happens to them. We live in a society where mankind overlooks those who try to control or rule over another. This quote relates to this topic because humanity does not do enough to stop human trafficking and needs to take more precaution of the situation.

Stott and Ramey stated in their journal: “Human Trafficking described as a form of modern-day slavery, human trafficking tremendously violates the rights of its victims. Human trafficking is quickly becoming one of the fastest-growing business of organized crime. Bales and Lize explained that human trafficking is a means by which people are brought into as well as maintained in, slavery and forced labor. It is an actual process of enslavement” (Stotts and Ramey, 36-47). Human trafficking is a violation to the whole community of human on the Earth. It destroys the well-developed human society. It is the new slavery of modern time, trading African slaves are not allowed

Imagine being able to own a business and make nothing but profit. One of the types of

We are living in a generation in a generation where many women are introduced into a hell-hole called human trafficking. This is a major worldwide problem. The first reason human trafficking is a major issue in the world is that many are being enslaved and denied their basic human rights. The second reason human trafficking is a major problem is that it continues violence against women. And the final reason that human trafficking is a problem is that increase the spread sexually transmitted diseases. The hell-hole of human trafficking makes victims of defenseless people. In a civilized society the weak and defenseless must be protected.

Human trafficking is an evolving global phenomenon that lacks adequate attention and information. The global issue has been around for many years, but it has been hidden and kept a secret by so many who knew it was going on. Today, there are “approximately 800,000 people trafficked across international borders” and many more trafficked from state to state (Richards 155). No longer is human trafficking hiding in the shadows of a small farm or town that is hidden away from a busy city near by. Human trafficking has made its move to all continents and ages. The global issue of human trafficking has become the world’s largest trafficking activity because of the large revenue that is made from it, as well the belief that it has become the

Human trafficking is an form of modern slavery that is illegal is nearly every country. It has become a major world-wide epidemic with little progress made in promoting the safety for innocent sex victims. Men and women (predominantly women) are subjected to violence, threats, lies, debt bondage, and other forms of coercion to compel adults and children to engage in sexual acts. In order to salvage these guiltless victims lives’, actions must be made within the police force, the government, and the everyday man, to make a change for the well-being and safety of everyone in the sex trade and those in potential danger of becoming a victim to slavery.

Human trafficking in modern day society is a major epidemic. Men, women and children are being stolen and traded for sex, forced labor and exploitation every day. Most people think that it only occurs in third world countries, but this is not the case. Tens of thousands of people a year are trafficked in the United States, most of them women and children. American need to become more aware of this horrific practice so that the authorities can catch these people and punish them.

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

Human Trafficking is defined in Article 3 of the United Nations (UN)’s Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, 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 o5ver another person, for the purpose of exploitation.”