Foreign Nationals. Globalization has brought many benefits to the countries of the world but it has also made moving people, illegally, across international borders much easier. The 2016 Global Slavery Index published yearly by the Walk Free Organization estimates there are between 14,000 and 17,000 foreign nationals trafficked across U.S. borders each year. They come from all over the globe - Asia, Africa, India, China, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Traffickers are very often members of the victim’s own ethnic and language group which facilitates the building of trust when recruiting. Women are often used to recruit other women and interestingly, women are convicted in cases of human trafficking at a higher percentage than any other
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It is was the first large scale comprehensive study of its kind. Its findings, based on interviews with prosecuted sex workers and pimps across the country, describe the illegal sex trade on the nation’s streets. Most pimps argued that the media tended to exaggerate the use of violence against victims and asserted that psychological manipulation is the preferred method for controlling their victims. Pimps tend to discourage their victims from giving away sex for free as one way to recruit victims. They also would feign romantic interest in their victim in order to convince them to work for them. Most pimps acknowledge that they had a gift for manipulation and used it as the primary way of controlling the girls who “work” for them (Dank, 2016). The Urban Institute study also revealed there are many people around the sex trafficking industry that facilitate and profit from it besides pimps and brothel owners. Hotel managers, corrupt law enforcement officers, drivers and secretaries are also examples of people who benefit and protect those engaging in sex …show more content…
One panelist mentioned that sex trafficking is so hard to identify because many of the victims go home every night and sleep in their own beds, attend school and have what looks like a “normal” life. What is not visible is that on the weekends or in the evenings they are are being trafficked. The children may not even realize themselves that they are victims. It may be a parent or “boyfriend”. They may be being blackmailed because they have done something or have been tricked into doing something they feel guilty about and want to hide. This makes identification especially hard and prosecution difficult (Barnes,
It is was the first large scale comprehensive study of its kind. Its findings, based on interviews with prosecuted sex workers and pimps across the country, describe the illegal sex trade on the nation’s streets. Most pimps argued that the media tended to exaggerate the use of violence against victims and asserted that psychological manipulation is the preferred method for controlling their victims. Pimps tend to discourage their victims from giving away sex for free as one way to recruit victims. They also would feign romantic interest in their victim in order to convince them to work for them. Most pimps acknowledge that they had a gift for manipulation and used it as the primary way of controlling the girls who “work” for them (Dank, 2016). The Urban Institute study also revealed there are many people around the sex trafficking industry that facilitate and profit from it besides pimps and brothel owners. Hotel managers, corrupt law enforcement officers, drivers and secretaries are also examples of people who benefit and protect those engaging in sex …show more content…
One panelist mentioned that sex trafficking is so hard to identify because many of the victims go home every night and sleep in their own beds, attend school and have what looks like a “normal” life. What is not visible is that on the weekends or in the evenings they are are being trafficked. The children may not even realize themselves that they are victims. It may be a parent or “boyfriend”. They may be being blackmailed because they have done something or have been tricked into doing something they feel guilty about and want to hide. This makes identification especially hard and prosecution difficult (Barnes,