Sex Trafficking

Exploitative Labor Migration

In general, human trafficking can be considered an organized displacement of people, over national borders or within a country, for the benefit of economic exploitation. Human trafficking involves receiving and sending countries and countries in transit. A single country can be a country of destination, origin, and transit. For instance, each year, girls and women from Bangladesh are trafficked to brothels in India and Pakistan, and, if they are considered beautiful, they may then be sold to the Middle East. Therefore, India can be a country of transit. A country of origin can also become a country of destination, such as the Czech Republic or Poland.

Trafficking is a worldwide phenomenon. It can take place between different continents; for example, women from Latin America, such as the Dominican Republic or Colombia, are trafficked to the sex industry in Spain or Germany; Ethiopian women are recruited and transported for jobs as domestic workers in Yemen; women are trafficked from South Korea or the Philippines to the United States. Trafficking can also happen within the same [Page 1519]continent; for example, within Europe, women from Albania are trafficked to Italy, Greece, or Kosovo; and women from the former Soviet Union and eastern Europe are trafficked to Turkey; in Southeast Asia, women are trafficked from Thailand and the Philippines to Japan and from Nepal and Bangladesh to India, and Vietnamese men are trafficked to China to work in brick kilns; in Africa, women from Uganda are taken to the growing tourist industry in Kenya. Despite the fact that immigrants form a great part of the total number of victims, trafficking is not specifically related to migrants.

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