Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue: A Paradigm Expansion in the United States Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Edition

After reading Makini Chisolm-Straker’s books called “Human Trafficking Is a Public Health Issue: A Paradigm Expansion in the United States” really widened my perspective of the criminal activity of human trafficking. Makini Chisolm-Straker’s main purpose of writing this book was to engage the reader into being targeted for trafficking whether it is forced labor or commercialized sex being called the modern day slavery. Modern day slavery is a system that is dishonoring and it degrades people through violent coercion of their labor activity in harsh conditions that dehumanizes these victims. The major societal cost that is related with human trafficking is the victims have lost their individual freedoms and their basic human rights. In order to decline the rate of people being targeted for trafficking has influenced new laws and policies from the law enforcements and NGOs. In today’s society there are large interaction of cultural, social, political, and economic components that are put in play to influence the awareness and support to stop human trafficking. Also she is trying to get her readers to understand the different types of trafficking that is going on whether it is adult male and females or especially young children being forced into this type of coercion or forced labor. Finally she was trying to make people become more aware of the human rights that are being violated. Makini Chisolm-Straker defines human trafficking as as a public health issues where forced labor exploitation and comercial sex has the ability to affect many members of a society. Throughout this book Makini Chisolm-Straker was able to gather her data and information on human trafficking through a couple of different strategies. She was able to use the couple method which was quantitive and qualitive research methods through surveys, interviews, and statistical reviews happening in the United States. In the text Makini-Chisolm-Straker mentioned an interesting fact of the statistical data from Powell and Bennouna’s study of how 3,000 people have been targeted for human trafficking in the San Diego County in 2015, and how only half went to any sort of law enforcemnt. Human trafficking continues to be one of the worst problems that faces society today. It takes away civil human rights. The exploration of this deviant act of human trafficking of the historical perspectives over the centuries relating to how this is a global issue is being addressed for the saftey of adults and young children. The causes of human trafficking effects large groups of people in cultural, social, political, and economical ways. By protecting our human rights means that the most relevant rights towards human trafficking are known as the right to life, not to be submitted to slavery, servitude, or forced labor, and the right not to be subjected to torture or cruel, inhuman, degrading treatments. After reading this book has really changed my view and thoughts about human trafficking and knowing that this is much more of a serious cause and should become a bigger concern than it is today. Because these things are happening in our everyday lives right under us without noticing. The entire reading was very engaging because there was different sections in the chapter that i was able to view the charts or statistical samples to see understand how much human trafficking has increased in the United States. I think that anyone who should be reading this should be men, women, children, and organizations who are trying to put an end to trafficking.

Human trafficking is truly a silent crime that we in the US turn a blind eye to. This book sheds light on the seriousness of human trafficking from a public health lens.

This text is an exceptional contribution on the complex issues related to human trafficking. It is a must read!

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This book offers an extremely thorough, well written and insightful journey through the complexities of human trafficking, making good use of a wide range of academic and survivor perspectives. As a paediatrician, I found the clear connection between trauma exposure in childhood and the life experiences of adult trafficking survivors well presented with clear weaving together of risks, vulnerabilities and health needs across the whole lifespan. It is so important to avoid disconnecting the adult survivor from their earlier childhood, even more so as services (and the medical profession) tend to support either children OR adults and the big picture can be lost. An excellent, well referenced resource I would highly recommend to those in the human trafficking & modern slavery academic, policy and/or practical care world.