Human Trafficking

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The social imagination is the most important tool sociologists can use to understand the world. The social imagination is used to help scientists understand why individuals live in certain ways by showing how they are explained by overall social and historical factors.

There are many people in the world today that don’t have one basic privilege that everyone at Concordia has. That privilege is freedom. Human trafficking is modern day slavery. It is the illegal trade of selling human beings into labor or sexual exploitation through coercion, defraudation, or force. The worst human trafficking happens in Southeast Asia. According to the Xinhua News Agency, authorities in Myanmar (also known as Berma) uncovered 161 human trafficking cases in 2010. That number is actually an increase from the 155 cases they had in 2009. This proves that human trafficking is at an increase.

Human trafficking is the tied for the second most illegal maker of profits with illegal gun trading. Drug selling is in first place. There is an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 men, women, and children trafficked across international borders each year. Human trafficking victimizes at least twelve million people every year. It could be many more but it’s hard to know exactly how many there are when some perpetrators don’t get caught.

The sheer number of people who are trafficked for sex or labor proves that this is a social issue. 12 million is a lot of people. It is very hard to imagine such a large number. If this was a personal trouble of certain people, than it wouldn’t be happening to so many people. It also wouldn’t be localized to Southeast Asia either. This is concrete proof that human trafficking is an international social issue.

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