Social Effects Of Human Trafficking

Human trafficking is defined in the Trafficking Protocol as “the recruitment, transport, transfer, harboring or receipt of a person by such means as threat or force” (Human Trafficking, 2015). Trafficking can be broken down into core elements such as action, means, or purpose. The action of trafficking, which mean the recruitment, transportation, or the transfer of persons. “The means of trafficking includes use of force, deception, coercion, abuse or power or position of vulnerability” (Human Trafficking, 2015). The purpose of trafficking, which always exploitation. It has become very hard to stop and even find the victims of this organized crime because victims are most of the time brain washed and deceived. Over the years, the consistent

Those who have truly experienced human trafficking are the ones who most cope within the majority of society. Socially, human trafficking affect’s the victim’s. “With sex trafficking, victim’s face threats of violence from many sources, including customers, pimps, brothel owners, madams, and corrupt law officials and with labor trafficking” (George, 2012). Victim’s face threats from business owners, and sad to say, modern day, “Slave Owners or Masters”. Trafficking victims are also exposed to different psychological stresses. “Victims suffer short-term psychological impact like social alienation, stigmatizing, social exclusion, and tolerance” (TRCTP, 2011). Some victim’s suffers from long term psychological like Stockholm syndrome and Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. “Stockholm syndrome is capture-bonding, is a psychological phenomenon in which hostages express empathy and sympathy and have positive feelings toward their captors, sometimes to the point of defending and identifying with the captors” (TRCTP, 2011). Some other long term psychological impact is HIV/AIDS and STDS. “Although 98% of the sex trade is composed of woman and girls there is an effort to gather empirical evidence about the psychological impact on abuse common in sex trafficking upon young boys” (McCarthy, 2010). Being a female, “the susceptibility of a trafficking woman to HIV/AIDS is higher than that of a person who engages in sex workout of

That’s where the corrupt actors within this chain of activities come in that may include police, customs officers, embassies/consulates, and border control authorities, immigration services. Other law enforcement agencies, intelligence/security forces, armed forces (national or international), local officials, persons/groups/parties with influence on public officials, as well as private sector actors, such as travel agencies, airlines, transportation sector, financial institutions, and banks may also be corrupted. This is not limited to government officials from different countries too. Corruption plays a huge role in the trafficking process. It’s from the initial planning to the point where a victim is trafficked and the exploitation begins. Recruitment plays the first step. Recruitment is the stage where a person becomes a victim. “Corruption at this point is the buying and silence of government bodies that are responsible for protections” (George, 2012). For example, three recruitment agencies in the Philippines were responsible for nearly Filipino workers trafficked. Nearly 100 Filipino government officials were arrested.
The second part is the transport. This is where the police officers and border controls plays a major part. In an instance, “internationally trafficking requires the help with making sure the goods has reached their destination without not much of a hassle” (George, 2012). They take bribes that are