Female Sex Trafficking Definition
The researchers were interested in providing a comprehensive overview of relevant issues in female sex trafficking. They provided conceptual issues, discussed current debates surrounding human tracking and compared and contrasted it with human smuggling, and future directions in such as sex work and prostitution. The researchers draw a variety of disciplines such as economic, gender, sexual studies, psychology, sociology, law and social work. The researchers also emphasis on the major differences between human smuggling and human trafficking. They try to outline the main actors in female sex trafficking, including the tracked person, traffickers, clients and the overview of the trafficking process from recruitment to identification recovery.
In addition, they try to recommend future research that emphasizes on exploitation, long-term recovery, and reintegration into society for the victims. Overall, the finding of the research concluded that women are more likely to be trafficked than man. The most commonly quoted estimate of the number of persons trafficked claims that 20.9 million people are currently subjected to force labor. Fifty-five percent are women and girls while twenty-two percent are forced into sexual exploitation. The three dominant approaches to this issues are state security, migration, and human rights. Poverty and being unemployed are common characteristics attributed to trafficked women. Trafficked women often have low levels of education family situations such as physical or sexual violence are common characteristics of the victims. The organized crime groups that recruit women comprise of members from various nationalities and ethnicities. There are two methods of recruitment that are often utilized to recruit or lure women: one the pimp gains trust and thus controls the woman by becoming her boyfriend and in some cases offering marriage. The second form of recruitment is by offering a women employment which plays into her desire to migrate. One of the last findings discussion in the journal is the identification of a trafficked person, the initial response is to place them in a safe shelter and provide physical and mental help.
In addition, they try to recommend future research that emphasizes on exploitation, long-term recovery, and reintegration into society for the victims. Overall, the finding of the research concluded that women are more likely to be trafficked than man. The most commonly quoted estimate of the number of persons trafficked claims that 20.9 million people are currently subjected to force labor. Fifty-five percent are women and girls while twenty-two percent are forced into sexual exploitation. The three dominant approaches to this issues are state security, migration, and human rights. Poverty and being unemployed are common characteristics attributed to trafficked women. Trafficked women often have low levels of education family situations such as physical or sexual violence are common characteristics of the victims. The organized crime groups that recruit women comprise of members from various nationalities and ethnicities. There are two methods of recruitment that are often utilized to recruit or lure women: one the pimp gains trust and thus controls the woman by becoming her boyfriend and in some cases offering marriage. The second form of recruitment is by offering a women employment which plays into her desire to migrate. One of the last findings discussion in the journal is the identification of a trafficked person, the initial response is to place them in a safe shelter and provide physical and mental help.