FWA #2 First Draft
English 102 10:00
Professor Rigdon
November 16, 2014
Human Trafficking and its Dire Effects.
Human Trafficking in the United States is something not a lot of people discuss. Most think it is only something that happens in third world countries, but in fact could be happening in their hometown. According to Protocol to Prevent, Subdue and Punish Trafficking in Persons, human trafficking in the modern world entails transfer of persons by use of applied force. Other methods used to enforce the trafficking include use of deception, abduction, making payments to achieve harmony of a person having control over another and power abuse. The forms of exploitation executed on the victims include forced services of labor, practices of slavery, and instances of servitude and also forced sexual exploitation. It can result to loss of nationality to the victims of trafficking and it inflicts torture and pain on them. It is a breach of human privileges and basic human principles of living. It has three constituents; act, means and purpose. The three define the workability of the entire process of trafficking to its success. They outline the transportation plan, harboring of victims, the threat strategy to be applied, and the goal of trafficking being achieved. Human trafficking is a modern day form of slavery that should be abolished once and for all.
Human trafficking was largely used during the slavery era. Africans were the major victims of their process. Captivators sailed to Africa and forcefully captured persons and transported them to their native destinations. They then forced them to undertake labor when in slavery. In America, between the years 1789 to 1861, slavery which was a product of human trafficking was largely used. It today’s world, human trafficking is used mainly for sexual exploitation. Human trafficking is formulated as a crime. According to journal, Anti-anti-trafficking? Towards Critical Ethnographies of Human