Prologue -- Part I. Sex trafficking -- Runaways, from the frying pan into the fire -- Happy beginnings, sad endings -- Disposable wives -- Child sex tourism -- Adult sex tourism -- Human trafficker deployment -- Trafficked to La Mara -- Now recruiting for an exciting summer abroad -- Mentality of a monger -- Part II. Labor trafficking -- Legal and still exploited -- Domestic servants, diplomatic slaves -- Knocking at your door -- Dark side of chocolate from the Cote d'Ivoire -- Slaved in India, retailed in America -- Cheap luxury -- Stealing our jobs? -- Part III. Overcoming barriers to the abolition of modern slavery -- Hidden in plain sight -- Disposable kids -- Whac-a-Mole crusade online -- Blaming the hotel -- Crimmigration and labor trafficking -- Out of the shadows -- Appendix A: Sex work terminology and abbreviations -- Appendix B: Sample human trafficking expert witness testimony outline -- Appendix C: Gathering data from human trafficking survivors -- Appendix D: Sample sex tourist timeline: Dirk -- Appendix E: Additional quotes from mongers -- Appendix F: Sample tool to identify youth at high-risk of being trafficked.
Summary:
Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium documents how human trafficking and its byproducts touch every community in America, from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods to middle-class suburbs and alcoves of wealthy estates. It presents information derived from narrative accounts of real-life trafficking cases, interviews with convicted human traffickers, empirical research, and criminal case files to expose the grim realities of human trafficking in America, perpetrated by Americans. Readers will grasp the origins, evolution, and extent of the problem; understand how trafficking plays an unrecognized role in our day-to-day lives; and see why advancements in awareness and anti-trafficking resources have not changed the status quo. The victims of trafficking continue to be criminalized by law enforcement, and the offenders continue to exploit and profit from new recruits. This book equips readers with the knowledge needed to identify human trafficking cases and advocate for polity changes to end this scourge in America.--INSIDE FLAP.
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