TRAFFICKED: A Comprehensive View of Today's Modern Slavery
Second Edition McGaha, Mikovits, © 2017, 186 pages
This textbook is suitable for a global human and sex trafficking course.
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The issue of human trafficking has received a great deal of local attention, beginning with a series of articles published by the local news media regarding the rescue of victims and federal prosecution of traffickers in the Fall of 2005. These cases raised the awareness of this horrendous and often hidden crime. Since that time, many community volunteers expressed an interest in becoming involved as speakers, community organizers, etc. While there have been opportunities through the local task forces and some organizations, like the local Zonta Clubs and some faith-based organizations that formed along with other action and advocacy groups, it has not been easy for the lone volunteer to find a meaningful way to participate.
At the first meeting of the Lee County Human Trafficking Task Force in 2005, the director of a home for foster girls and their babies gave law enforcement a lead which led to the arrest of four human traffickers. That case, involving a twelve-year-old Guatemalan girl, later given the pseudonym of "Esperanza" (the Spanish word for hope), has been the subject of at least two documentaries. The success of that grassroots-led collaboration among law enforcement, prosecutors, service providers, community groups and the media has catapulted southwest Florida into the forefront of human trafficking efforts, with specific and significant credit given to the role of the community initiative. These efforts lead to the need for the establishment of the newly formed Human Trafficking Resource Center at Florida Gulf Coast University, dedicated to the reduction and eradication of human trafficking.
The works incorporated in this book are meant to awaken the soul of the reader. They are meant to be an eye-opening experience. They are meant to call the reader to action in whatever way he or she sees fit. If the papers presented here anger you...good. You should be angry. You should be outraged. You should be telling everyone you know about human trafficking and what it does to the victims. If we have done our job, you will be angry...and ready to act.
At the first meeting of the Lee County Human Trafficking Task Force in 2005, the director of a home for foster girls and their babies gave law enforcement a lead which led to the arrest of four human traffickers. That case, involving a twelve-year-old Guatemalan girl, later given the pseudonym of "Esperanza" (the Spanish word for hope), has been the subject of at least two documentaries. The success of that grassroots-led collaboration among law enforcement, prosecutors, service providers, community groups and the media has catapulted southwest Florida into the forefront of human trafficking efforts, with specific and significant credit given to the role of the community initiative. These efforts lead to the need for the establishment of the newly formed Human Trafficking Resource Center at Florida Gulf Coast University, dedicated to the reduction and eradication of human trafficking.
The works incorporated in this book are meant to awaken the soul of the reader. They are meant to be an eye-opening experience. They are meant to call the reader to action in whatever way he or she sees fit. If the papers presented here anger you...good. You should be angry. You should be outraged. You should be telling everyone you know about human trafficking and what it does to the victims. If we have done our job, you will be angry...and ready to act.