Posts Tagged ‘sex trafficking’

Close to home: Complications in the domestic anti-trafficking discourse

By Sienna Baskin, The U.S. anti-trafficking law was signed by President Clinton in October, 2000, ushering us into an era where this issue has become a hot topic around the world. After 10 years of lawmaking and public debate around the problem of human trafficking, the central conversations on the Hill...

January 11th, 2011 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

Today’s efforts to combat human trafficking reflect historical racism and sexism

By Melissa Ditmore, Current efforts to address trafficking in persons are both reminiscent of and informed by the history of slavery and trafficking in the United States and elsewhere. In fact, trafficking in persons is often referred to as “modern-day slavery.” Historical grounding confirms that...

January 11th, 2011 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More

Race, nativism, and anti-trafficking efforts: A dangerous and divisive game

Race has always played a role in labeling some people as worthy and others as undeserving of legal protections and access to justice. This has been the case whether the person in question is an alleged perpetrator of harm or an alleged victim. Collective thinking of this kind ultimately confers or takes...

October 6th, 2010 | Immigration | Read More

Race and human trafficking in the U.S.: Unclear but undeniable

I watch and listen to the advocacy of human trafficking at rallies, on web sites, in government reports and NGO reports. The research and statistics on human trafficking in America are ambiguous, especially in relation to race and ethnicity. We need to explicitly recognize the connections between trafficking,...

May 10th, 2010 | Slavery/Human Trafficking | Read More