The Responsibility Of Human Trafficking In The United States

What is Human Trafficking? Human trafficking is often mixed up with human smuggling, and even though that the both involve illegal movement of people there is a distinct difference in them. Human trafficking “in short, … are, first, the transportation of a person; second, force, fraud, or coercion; and, finally, exploitation.” In this definition the consent of the human being is not accounted for, but in the definition of human smuggling the consent of the human is acknowledged. Nobody knows exactly how big human trafficking is today because it is held underground and the crime is not always identified or unidentified. That is now causing large amounts of trouble for the organizations fighting human trafficking. The organizations are having trouble gaining information and researching human trafficking because the “supposed inaccessibility of trafficked victims is often used to justify unsubstantiated claims of trafficking and the development of solutions that are not based on the experiences of trafficked persons.” Although with this challenge many researchers like Silvia Scarpa, Jo Doezema, Limoncelli, Kara, and Bales are making their way through the maze and are …show more content…
The main stream media has raised awareness of the issue even “Hollywood personalities and celebrity journalists… have made the fight against human trafficking their calling.” There are many positives to the media spreading the word of human trafficking,