Title: Sex trafficking : the global market in women and children /
Authors: Farr, Kathryn
Publisher: Worth Publishers,
Year: 2005
Subjects: Human trafficking; Prostitution; Child prostitution.; Forced labor; Slave trade; Women Crimes against.; Children Crimes against; Transnational crime.; Organized crime; War crimes
Contents: 1. Introduction : size and scope -- Size and scope of sex trafficking around the world -- Regional volume : some examples -- Regional growth -- Sex industry growth -- The personal and the contextual -- The rise of sex trafficking from the former Soviet states -- Women from the NIS in foreign sex industries : size and scope -- Collapse of the Soviet Union and economic transition -- Decline in the status of women and vulnerability to traffickers -- Contributors to sex trafficking from a region in transition : conclusions -- Coming up -- Notes -- 2. Industry profits and debt bondage, or how traffickers make money from modern-day slavery -- Industry-wide profits and safeguards -- Regional profits -- The debt bondage system -- Debt amounts -- Living expenses and earnings -- Other charges : fines, medical costs, passport buybacks -- Living and working conditions -- Living quarters -- Work -- Control mechanisms : creating dependence -- Conditions vary -- Notes.