Does Human Trafficking happen in the United States?



Does Human Trafficking happen in the United States?

Abstract

The subject of the paper is the concept of human trafficking and the implications on different levels by the government and organizations to control trafficking in persons. The main area of understanding is the trafficking of children and women that leads to the threat of migrant trafficking across the world and the United States of America(Hart, 2009). The trafficking in persons has become a transnational concept around the world with severe consequences and serious implications that lead towards the threats of social security among the people and the governments (Cameron & Newman, 2008).

Human trafficking affects the international security and peace of the world and negatively influence the rights of the human beings, lead to the prevalence of violence and threats of disputes on an international level. The increasing trafficking in persons has also affected the lifestyles of the people due to the prevalence of threats of their lives (Shelley, 2010). This paper discusses the concept of human trafficking and explains the purpose of human trafficking by the perspective of the people who are involved in this activity. It analyzes the methods of combating with the process of human trafficking by the United States and international organizations (Meyer, & Silke, (2006).

Human trafficking involves the illegal transfer of people from one country to another. It is considered as a crime because people are transferred or traveled from one place to another without their consent and they are treated as slaves to be involved in other illegal activities that could provide potential benefit to the people involved in the process of human trafficking. Any kind of recruitment, transfer, transport, harbor or receiving of a person with coercion, force or other illegal means that exploits the victim is included in the human trafficking. The potential victims of the human trafficking usually involve children and women who are sent abroad to the advantageous destinations of the world. It can be considered as an abuse of power that involves fraud, deception and abduction in order to get a control over the victims for exploiting them (Scarpa, 2006). The exploitation of victims involved sexual exploration, prostitution, slavery, forced labor, removal of organs of the victims to sell in the market and other similar kind of acts (Skinner, 2009).

The phenomenon of human trafficking is growing in most parts of the world ...