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Human trafficking: conceptual clarifications

Author(s): Gabriela Alina Anghel
Subject(s): Social Sciences
Published by: POLIROM & Universitatea Bucureşti - Dept. de Sociologie şi Asistenţă Socială
Keywords: human trafficking; smuggling; slavery; migration; violence

Summary/Abstract: The concept of human trafficking implies a complex variety of definitions which derives from the way the researchers involved in studying the phenomenon understood to define the subject ′s elements of substance and form. Although there is criticism over the directions of analysis and definition of human trafficking, the most common views are focused on explanations that placed human trafficking around the aspects referred to modern slavery, violence against the person, and organized crime. It also often finds that human trafficking is a social problem explained and defined in the context of phenomena like internal and over-border migration, abuses of human rights problem and one that concerns morality. The phenomenon of human trafficking must be analyzed from a global perspective, being necessary to present and to define all forms of human trafficking identified worldwide and to have a historical journey. The concept of 'human trafficking' relates within its mechanism activities like recruitment, transport, sequester, coercion and sexual or labor exploitation of people.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 120-129
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Romanian