They are lured into the system with promises of love and wealth, they could be forced through kidnapping or they could see it as the last resort. There have been many articles that detail traffickers preying on people with promises of higher incomes to improve economic situations, support parents and families in villages, and escape from war and conflict. These traffickers then hold the favor they have given to this victim over his or her head in order to keep him or her indebted to the trafficker. One of the more prominent reasons behind people being lured into the ring of modern slavery is because they feel as though they have no other choice. This is the rationale seen in many third world countries stricken with poverty who see that their only way out of poverty is to sell themselves. As in the novel, Oryx’s mother sold her and her brother with the idea in mind that doing so would “give the remaining children a better chance in life” (Oryx and Crake 119) this shows the sacrifice that these victims make to get out of poverty despite knowing that they are selling their children to slave owners. Due to their environment of impoverishment they turn to giving away their children to unknown men for a little bit of money that would bring them a couple of cents above the poverty line that they were used
They are lured into the system with promises of love and wealth, they could be forced through kidnapping or they could see it as the last resort. There have been many articles that detail traffickers preying on people with promises of higher incomes to improve economic situations, support parents and families in villages, and escape from war and conflict. These traffickers then hold the favor they have given to this victim over his or her head in order to keep him or her indebted to the trafficker. One of the more prominent reasons behind people being lured into the ring of modern slavery is because they feel as though they have no other choice. This is the rationale seen in many third world countries stricken with poverty who see that their only way out of poverty is to sell themselves. As in the novel, Oryx’s mother sold her and her brother with the idea in mind that doing so would “give the remaining children a better chance in life” (Oryx and Crake 119) this shows the sacrifice that these victims make to get out of poverty despite knowing that they are selling their children to slave owners. Due to their environment of impoverishment they turn to giving away their children to unknown men for a little bit of money that would bring them a couple of cents above the poverty line that they were used