Hidden in plain sight : America's slaves of the new millennium / Kimberly Mehlman-Orozco, PhD.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Human trafficking--United States.

Human trafficking.

Slavery--United States.

Slavery.

Immigrants--Crimes against.

Immigrants.

Foreign workers.

Forced labor.

United States.

Forced labor--United States.

Foreign workers--Crimes against--United States.

Immigrants--Crimes against--United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

Social conditions.

United States--Ethnic relations.

Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

xix, 245 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, [2017]

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Mehlman-Orozco, Kimberly, author. Hidden in plain sight

ISBN:

9781440854033

1440854033

OCLC:

978516016

Publisher Number:

99974554296