Summary In this article, Erin articulates the cause and effects of sex trafficking. She makes sure to clarify that sex trafficking is not a distant problem, but is distinctly present in your own community. Erin covers 3 prominent reasons for the worldwide sex trafficking issue. She introduces trafficking as a multimillion-dollar Industry, a glamorous façade, and even talks about local experiences with prostitution rings.…
Logan, Robert Walker, and Gretchen Hunt, the authors are addressing the issues of human trafficking. Giving readers an understanding of what human trafficking is, the contributing factors, and provides ways to identify human traffick victims. Human trafficking is now being considered modern day slavery and has been receiving increasing amount of national attention. Data from previous research and reports, found that trafficking does not always start off as sex labor, giving examples of different ways individuals are lured to the US for marriage and work, then traded into trafficking. The articles addressed industries with high traffic victim rates like pornography(3%-30%), personal services(1%-37%) , and agricultural labor(10%-46%)(Logan,Walker,and Hunt,2009).…
Burke is an associate university lecturer in the division of psychology and therapy at Carlow University where she acts as a curriculum administrator of the doctoral course in therapy psychology. This makes her an expert on top of the fact that she has been concerned with anti-human trafficking efforts ever since the year 2004 and she is the originator of the scheme “End of Human Trafficking.” Mary considers the practice of human being mistreatment as a slavery-like state that is not new. She focuses on communal, political as well as financial forces over the past 60years having distorted the manner in which as well as the reason human rights abuse appear. With a variety of contributing subject professionals from diverse disciplines and experts, Mary Burke expansively explains human trafficking as it exists in the 21st…
Due to the lack of awareness about what is going on around communities and states, many men, women, and even children are sexually assaulted, beaten, threatened, drugged, and forced into servitude every hour of every day. There will be no solution to the growing problem of human trafficking until more people are aware of how human trafficking takes place, until states begin to deter human trafficking more effectively, and until more individuals take an active role in reporting possible acts of trafficking to the proper authorities. Therefore human trafficking cannot be defined as any one particular crime; it is not simply sexual exploitation. It is much more than that because human trafficking has many different characteristics. In the article "Hidden in Plain Sight: Human Trafficking in the United States,” Hepburn and Simon state that “. . .…
The human trafficking industry is an illegal multimillion dollar money making platform, which thousands upon thousands of women, children and men are exposed to every day. I was introduced to this form of slavery while reading the novel Traffiked, by Sophie Hayes; the true story of how the author herself was forced into the world of trafficking and was a victim of forced prostitution, to make money for a man whom she loved and thought loved her too. Throughout this report I will be discussing the different forms of human trafficking; specifically the sex slave industry, the process and experiences sex slaves endure, what organizations have been set up to assist and aid victims and survivors of trafficking and the impact of sex trafficking on…
Equality: A fundamental idea that all citizens are worth something- which all lives are significant, and that human potential is not restrained. In many developing countries, women are considered to be insignificant, incapable and unworthy of holding any potential outside of the domestic sphere, and tied down by an international power struggle that has lingered for ages. At this time, too many women know the heinous reality of the international gender gap and the woes of being considered second class citizens. “Women and girls make up 98% of victims of trafficking for sexual exploitation.” (International Labour Organization, 2005).…
Barbara Glickstein (2014) wrote a wonderful article titled “Human Trafficking: The Need for Nursing Advocacy.” Glickstein begins her article with a description of human trafficking, effectively describing it as a travesty of global proportion. Labeling trafficking as a disease, she explains how, like any other disease, it is important to educate the public to prevent and slow its progression. Glickstein describes how trafficking is a form of violence that causes physical and psychological harm.…
On August 27, 2014, six men were arrested for conducting a human trafficking ring in Northeastern Minnesota and Northwestern Wisconsin. (The Associated Press par 1). Of these men, only one, Ronald Provost of Foxboro, is native to Wisconsin; he was charged with child enticement (The Associated Press par 2). The other five men were arrested for prostitution (The Associated Press par 3). Human Trafficking, according to the advisers of the Do Something campaign, is using force to make people do tasks that exploite them, such as sex-work or labor-work (“Terms” sec 10).…
An article “human trafficking exposes modern form of slavery” states, “The most common form (79%) is sexual exploitation. The victims of sexual exploitation are predominantly women and girls”. This implies that the trafficker’s main targets are women and young girls because they are easy to manipulate. Some of these victims were often mislead by the traffickers deception and false promise by giving them better education and better…
“During the trafficking period, more than 80% of participants had been subjected to sexual violence, threats of harm to themselves, and persistently restricted freedom” (Hassan et al). Majority of the women who were trafficked faced sexual violence and in order to be free they had to accept this violence. They had no freedom and were not allowed to return home. Being restricted from returning home, they are trafficked unwillingly (McCormick). If the women do try to leave, they are threatened and forced to stay (McCormick).…
Human trafficking can easily be explained by its definition, " organized criminal activity in which human beings are treated as possessions to be controlled and exploited, as by being forced into prostitution or involuntary labor,” (“Human Trafficking”). However, the definition itself doesn’t explain the broader picture. Human trafficking doesn’t just affect women, according to Greenbaum she states that, “Trafficked persons may be of any race, ethnicity, or gender; they may belong to any cultural or socioeconomic group” (1). The cruel reality is that children also fall victims to trafficking.…
Sex trafficking is one of the largest billion dollar industries that is unknown to most. This industry is believed to bring about seven to twelve-billion-dollars in sales each year. Trafficking has been around since the 18th century and continues to this day; it involves the recruitment of victims, transportation, selling and buying, and the harsh psychological effects on the victims throughout the process. Average citizens are unaware of this violent process that opposes an immense amount of human rights. Global politics, specific regions, poverty, and disenfranchisement contribute to making women and children deceiving victims of sex trafficking.…
This issue is important to the field of sociological research because it is one that affects the attitudes and functions of societies not only in western countries but around the world. Human trafficking is a lucrative business that exploits individuals, manipulates, and bends the norms pre-established within society. The purpose of this essay is to deconstruct the crime ring of human trafficking and analyze it from a sociological perspective to see how it has morphed different aspects of society such as norms, interpretation of symbols and the socialization of victims. This essay will present the changing dynamics of norms in society and analyze how illegal processes can be rationalized if they are considered functional and beneficial to dominate groups even though they exploit others. This is accomplished 1) by examining the dynamics of power and how exploitation is the core function of these illegal crime rings from a Conflict Perspective; 2) by arguing how this illegal business continues to grow due to its rationalization and the incorporation of bureaucratic ideologies from a Functionalist counter argument ; and finally, 3) by analyzing how human trafficking reinforces roles that specifically victimizes women and perpetuates inequality presented by Conflict Feminist, as well as a looking at symbols within these trafficking countries that normalize the behavior with a Symbolic Interactionist…
Sex trafficking is an appearance of slavery that is through the world today. Sex traffickers use violence threats and other forms of force to push adults and children to engage in sex acts against their will. Any minor induced into sex is a victim of sex trafficking. Men, women, boys, and girls from Thailand, Cambodia, and Vietnam, are lead to sex trafficking in Thailand. Through the world it's estimated that there are 4.5 million victims of sex…
Many don 't realize that this is an international crisis that occurs in almost every continent. In the United States, there have been cases of human trafficking in all 50 states and some of the biggest trafficking consumers are in developed countries. It is unfortunately popular because of the amount of demand it has. Since women and girls mostly fall as victims to human trafficking, men are usually the consumers and these men who support the trafficking industry come from all different societies and social status. In today’s society, there is a common perception that the women who are involved in human trafficking chose to enter the industry, however, for the majority of women involved, this is not the…