DHS plays a major part in the protection of Human trafficking victims by allowing Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) to issue Continued Presence to trafficking victims. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) victims of human trafficking have offered relief under the T visas, and U visas. These three forms of relief give DHS the ability to offer protection to victims of human trafficking. Each of these relief is offered to victims provides protection either temporary or…
This literature review will explore the victimology of human trafficking. Specifically it will address human trafficking victims from the United States and those who originated from outside the United States. The literature will attempt to show that low socioeconomic status and prior illegal drug use by the victims contribute to the victimology of human trafficking.…
Human trafficking is a criminal act of abducting vulnerable people like children and even adults in demand for money or other huge prizes from the families of the victims. Some mechanisms and strategies have been put in place to reduce and curb this act that is endangering children and also some adults in the UK. According to the research conducted, most of the children who are abducted are the talkative ones who like making new friends whenever they see or meet strangers (Mahdavi, 2011). The criminals are situated in strategic places either in the interior of the forests or in the houses built underground where there is minimal interaction with other people. In…
Abas, M., Ostrovschi, N., Prince, M., Gorceag, V., Trigub, C., and Oram, S. (2013). Risk Factors for mental disorders in women survivors of human trafficking: a historical cohort study. BMC Psychiatry. Volume 13. Issue 1.…
Human trafficking is also called modern day slavery and is defined as holding someone illegally and against their will by form of deception and coercion and turning them into laborers and prostitutes without paying them. It is hard to believe that in the twenty first century, slavery still exists especially here at home and right under our noses. This has been an ongoing problem since the nineteenth century. A lot of people were trafficked into the United States and sold as slaves. Back then there were no laws that stated that it was illegal to traffic human beings and turn them into slaves.…
They are at risk of getting pelvic pain from having sex with different people and diseases like HIV, which can spread the disease among wider society. Also, these victims could suffer from mental and emotional health problems including anxiety, insomnia, and suicidal thoughts (Amanda Kloer, 2016). Human trafficking victims often suffer from exhaustion serious physical abuse. The psychological effect of trauma that the victims are experiencing is long-lasting and challenging to overcome. The typical injuries victims get include concussion, bruises, and broken bones, etc. Some of these serious injuries can cause long-lasting health problems, which will need a long-term treatment. (The Forms and Impact of Human Trafficking,…
Human trafficking is on the up rise; therefore, we have an increasing opportunity for greater interventions within our community. Traffickers target vulnerable Native women and youth who struggle with mental illness and substance abuse. These young women are easy targets because their mental illness affects their thought process of being able to recognize being exploited. Unfortunately, these young women believe these exploiters lies and deceit. They believe the pimps are their boyfriends and love them. Which in turn makes it hard to break away from their pimps even though they are getting treated so badly. (Research Roundup: Native American Women May be Vulnerable to Sex Trafficking. 2013)…
Slavery was abolished 150 years ago and yet there are more people in slavery today than in any other time in our history. Women and children all around the world search and hope for a better life. Some take that dream as far as to travel across oceans in pursuit of that goal. Unfortunately, these women and children usually fall victim to groups and companies who exploit and condemn them into slavery known as human trafficking. Human trafficking involves smuggle illegal citizens from other world countries and submitting them into forced processes such as prostitution, child labor, labor forces, and many others. Human trafficking is the second highest crime rate in America short of drug crimes. It’s a horrendous profit marketing that targets poorer country citizens.…
Alas, no gender, age, nor ethnicity is exempt from the global crisis of human trafficking. However, the victims are not dispersed evenly throughout the planet. The International Labour Organization (ILO) has concluded that the over half of all trafficked persons, for a total of 11.7 million slaves, come from the Asia-Pacific region. Meanwhile, the highest rates of people trafficked per thousand inhabitants exists in Central and Southeastern Europe (depicted in light blue) and Africa regions (depicted in tan), both having a rate of over four trafficked persons for every one thousand inhabitants (“Statistics on Forced Labour…”). Though the United States of America has one of the lowest rates of human trafficking worldwide, slavery still poses…
It is widely believed that slavery no longer exists in the world, or that it has largely been eradicated. In fact, it has been reported that there are now more slaves than there have ever been before in history. Modern slavery is largely known as human trafficking, and involves the trade of people for labor, sex, and even their organs. So, just how bad is human trafficking?…
United States is no stranger to a multitude of criminal activity that crosses it borders back and forth each day. Criminal organizations have found human sex trafficking to be one of the most lucrative businesses and actively prey on the lives of vulnerable men, women and children and exploiting them for profit. In a world were homeland security is at the utmost importance to the Department of Homeland Security’s mission, how is it that organized crime is still able to operate this form of modern day slavery undetected? All agencies need to collaborate and work collectively together and effectively communicate to combat sex trafficking. Educating all areas of law enforcement and the public on sex trafficking and what are red flags, implementing…
Human trafficking has become a large issue in many countries around the world, but in the United States it is illegal; yet it still exist, this is why the United States needs to become more involved in the issues of human trafficking. There are two common types of human trafficking: sexual and labor. Data collected between 2010 and 2012 shows 53% of trafficking was sexual and 40% was labor, this percent was calculated out of 31,766 reports. And in 2000 50,000 women and children were trafficked annually (Potocky, Miriam).…
Human trafficking is very common in the United States (Mallory, 2012). Each year there are about 20,000 people falling victim to human trafficking in the U.S., typically women and children (“United States of America,” n.d., n.p.). It has been found that, “The United States of America is principally a transit and destination country for trafficking in persons” (“United States of America,” n.d., n.p.). The United States government has been active in the attempt to ending human trafficking in our country and internationally (“United States of America,” n.d.). An act was created called The Trafficking Victims Protection…
The blood curdling scream echoed through the hall of the house where the teenage girl was ripped out from underneath the bed. She was hiding from the darkly dressed men who had just taken her best friend. Fortunately, she had called her dad while hiding and he eventually found her weeks later, right before she was to be auctioned off into slavery. This scene from the movie, Taken resonates with me and comes to mind when human trafficking is discussed. However, almost none of actual human and child trafficking cases result in the family finding and rescuing the victim. According to Transparency International, there are more than 12 million victims of human trafficking in the world each year, more than half of which are women and children. Child…
Sex trafficking is a terrible widespread phenomenon in the United States. Human trafficking ranks 3rd in world crime. An U.N. agency estimated the total value of human trafficking at $150 billion. (Tampa bay times)…