Sex Trafficking Rhetorical Analysis
3. “Money may be able to buy a lot of things, but it should never, ever be able to buy another human being.” – John F. Kerry, Secretary of State
- How do traffickers victims?
1. Prey on vulnerable individuals
2. False promises – perpetrators offer help; the reality is something different
3. Kidnapped/abducted
Prey on vulnerable individuals:
Holly Austin Smith (child sex trafficking survivor) – Smith shares her personal story and how easy she was coerced into the vicious world of human trafficking. At the age of fourteen, Smith wanted nothing more than her individual freedom and a little attention. Little did she know, that she was being manipulated into the inexorable clutches of a sex trafficking industry. Holly spent many years as …show more content…
Physical restraint – often traffickers keep their victims trapped in Isolation/locked away from the outside world
• Minh Dang, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking in the United States, writes a personal letter to the respected members of the anti-human trafficking movement addressing how to effectively work to fight modern-day slavery. Minh Dang describes her experiences and how she felt as a victim in this horrific industry.
“I have often described my experience of trafficking as being like that of a caged animal at the zoo…. my movements were restricted and monitored, and my environment was not native to me. I was isolated from others in my own species. Although this simile fits, I have come to find that I also often felt like an alien. I always knew that I resembled human beings because of my two eyes, two arms, two legs, and same general body shape; however, it appeared as if I were not thinking or living like other human beings I witnessed.”
Footnote: Laura T. Murphy, Survivors of Slavery: Modern-day Slave Narratives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), Foreword VIII.
2. Important legal documents, like passports and temporary work visas are confiscated/victim loses his/her identity; rendered powerless and totally dependent on their
- How do traffickers victims?
1. Prey on vulnerable individuals
2. False promises – perpetrators offer help; the reality is something different
3. Kidnapped/abducted
Prey on vulnerable individuals:
Holly Austin Smith (child sex trafficking survivor) – Smith shares her personal story and how easy she was coerced into the vicious world of human trafficking. At the age of fourteen, Smith wanted nothing more than her individual freedom and a little attention. Little did she know, that she was being manipulated into the inexorable clutches of a sex trafficking industry. Holly spent many years as …show more content…
Physical restraint – often traffickers keep their victims trapped in Isolation/locked away from the outside world
• Minh Dang, a survivor of domestic sex trafficking in the United States, writes a personal letter to the respected members of the anti-human trafficking movement addressing how to effectively work to fight modern-day slavery. Minh Dang describes her experiences and how she felt as a victim in this horrific industry.
“I have often described my experience of trafficking as being like that of a caged animal at the zoo…. my movements were restricted and monitored, and my environment was not native to me. I was isolated from others in my own species. Although this simile fits, I have come to find that I also often felt like an alien. I always knew that I resembled human beings because of my two eyes, two arms, two legs, and same general body shape; however, it appeared as if I were not thinking or living like other human beings I witnessed.”
Footnote: Laura T. Murphy, Survivors of Slavery: Modern-day Slave Narratives (New York: Columbia University Press, 2014), Foreword VIII.
2. Important legal documents, like passports and temporary work visas are confiscated/victim loses his/her identity; rendered powerless and totally dependent on their