Human Trafficking, Migration, and Gender

An Interdisciplinary Approach
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Abstract

The US government estimates that between 600,000 and 800,000 people are trafficked across international borders annually.1 At any given time the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that 2.5 million people are being trafficked around the world; approximately 80 percent of trafficked individuals are women and girls, and 50 percent are minors. 2 The revenue from human trafficking is large with an annual estimated average of US $13,000 per trafficked victim, totaling US $32 billion per year. 3 Kevin Bales, co-founder of Free the Slaves, believes that international human trafficking has become a modern euphemism for international slavery. 4 Bales estimates that there are 27 million people enslaved around the world at any given time. 5 Even though slavery has been outlawed in almost all countries worldwide, trafficking in persons continues to be one of the fastest growing criminal enterprises, ranking second only to the drug trade, recently outpacing the illegal arms trade.6 Despite the fact this global crisis is receiving international cooperation from policymakers and researchers alike; there is still little change in the conditions that are conducive to trafficking. In fact, the statistics we receive are, in fact, just estimates. No one really knows the extent of this phenomenon and many scholars have stated that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

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Sexual Exploitation Human Trafficking Justice Program Trafficking Victim Transnational Organize Crime 
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© Meg Wilkes Karraker 2013

Authors and Affiliations

  1. 1.MinneapolisUSA

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