The United States' Response to Human Trafficking: Sword of Justice or Paper Tiger

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. McKee
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
The United States

16. Human Trafficking

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrea M. Bertone
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Western Europe ◽  
Slave Trade ◽  
The United States ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
White Slavery ◽  
Global Issue ◽  
Late Nineteenth

This chapter examines how the international community has defined and framed the issue of human trafficking over the last century, and how governments such as the United States have responded politically to the problem of human trafficking. Contemporary concerns about trafficking can be traced back to a late nineteenth-century movement in the United States and Western Europe against white slavery. White slavery, also known as the white slave trade, refers to the kidnapping and transport of Caucasian girls and women for the purposes of prostitution. The chapter first considers the definitions of human trafficking before discussing the anti-white slavery movement and the increase in international consciousness about the trafficking of women. It then traces the origins of the contemporary anti-human trafficking movement and analyses how trafficking emerged as a global issue in the 1990s. It also presents a case study on human trafficking in the United States.

Vulnerability and Government Response to Human Trafficking: Vague Fuzzy Incidence Graphs

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 203-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
John N. Mordeson ◽  
Sunil Mathew ◽  
R. A. Borzooei
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Incidence Graph ◽  
Commonwealth Of Independent States ◽  
Government Response ◽  
Independent States

We introduce the notion of a vague incidence graph and its eccentricity. We apply the results to problems involving human trafficking and illegal immigration. We are particularly interested in the roll played by countries’ vulnerability and their government’s response to human trafficking. We show of the leading illegal immigration routes through Mexico to the United States that Somalia has the highest eccentricity. We also provide measures on how much a region needs to reduce flow or increase government response to be modelled by a fuzzy incidence graph. It turns out that the Commonwealth of Independent States has the largest measure for both vulnerability and government response than any other region.

The Celebritization of Human Trafficking

2014 ◽  
Vol 653 (1) ◽  
pp. 25-45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dina Francesca Haynes
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
The United States ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dominant Discourse ◽  
The Media

Human trafficking, and especially sex trafficking, is not only susceptible to alluring and sensational narratives, it also plays into the celebrity-as-rescuer ideal that receives considerable attention from the media, the public, and policy-makers. While some celebrities develop enough expertise to speak with authority on the topic, many others are neither knowledgeable nor accurate in their efforts to champion antitrafficking causes. Prominent policy-makers allow celebrity activists to influence their opinions and even consult with them for advice regarding public policies. Emblematic of larger, fundamental problems with the dominant discourse, funding allocations, and legislation in current antitrafficking initiatives in the United States and elsewhere, celebrity activism is not significantly advancing the eradication of human trafficking and may even be doing harm by diverting attention from aspects of the problem and solution that sorely require attention.

Harm and Resilience among Prostituted Teens: Broadening our Understanding of Victimisation and Survival

2010 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-254 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda M. Williams
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Exploitation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
Nuanced Understanding ◽  
Policy Communities

Based on qualitative research completed in the United States on pathways into and out of commercial sexual exploitation of children (CSEC), this article focuses on themes of harm, resilience and survival-focused coping by prostituted teens and makes recommendations for policy and practice. The research on which it is based takes a life-course perspective on pathways into and out of CSEC. Analyses of the narratives of homeless, runaway and sexually victimised (prostituted and trafficked) teens suggest the need for a more nuanced understanding of both harm and survival that has important implications for practice and policy communities responding to human trafficking within and across borders.

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