Globally – most identified victims =
labor trafficking
USA – most identified victims =
sex trafficking
This means the need for identification of labor trafficked victims in the USA and getting them the help they need
is not being met.
WARNING SIGNS:
RECRUITMENT - where, how, who
WHERE DO LABOR TRAFFICKERS FIND AND HOW DO THEY LURE THEIR VICTIMS?
Recruitment can happen anywhere, often through:
- Ads for work opportunities, domestic and international
- Targeted job offers, IE. modeling, management
- Placement agencies
- False promises, fraud over workplace conditions
- Ever-increasing debt for room, board, work clothing or equipment
- Smugglers demanding additional payment that the person cannot pay
- Familial: by one individual or a family group
- Posing as a benefactor followed by abuse
WHO IS MORE AT RISK OF RECRUITMENT AND OF BEING TRAFFICKED?
Individual circumstances:
- Take chances away from home
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- to avoid desperate situations or conditions in their home country
- for a better life for their families
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- Do not understand U.S. labor regulations
- Have language barriers
- Have developmental learning disabilities, mental health issues
- Follow available seasonal work
Environmental circumstances:
- Fleeing persecution or conflict
- Fleeing poverty and deprivation
- Working in remote, hidden, inaccessible areas
Culturally appropriate prevention and awareness education is key. International collaboration will help end labor trafficking.
LEARN ABOUT...
- What labor trafficking looks like
- U.S. labor laws
- Worker’s rights
- What to do if you or someone you know is being trafficked
- Available resources for victims regardless of immigration status
- T-visas, U-visas
Partner labor trafficking websites to explore are:
www.free2work.org – comparison shopping
www.knowthechain.org – look up your store’s policies on trafficking
www.slaveryfootprint.org – how many slaves work for you?
www.madeinafreeworld.org – buy fair trade
It takes a Global Village.
PREVENTION BEFORE HARM
CONTACT US
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P.O. Box 854
Sausalito, CA, 94966-0854
info@wisdominternational.org
Phone: 415-819-0417
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OUR MISSION: To Prevent human trafficking before harm begins.
OUR VISION: A world free from exploitation and slavery. 