Hidden in Plain Sight: America's Slaves of the New Millennium

Pimp-controlled sex workers exploited migrants domestic servants and sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth are just a few of the many forms of sex trafficking and labor trafficking going on all around the world―including in the United States. This book exposes both well-known and more obscure forms of human trafficking documenting how these heinous crimes are encountered in our daily lives.What types of human trafficking crimes are being committed here in the United States? Who are the victims of traffickers? How do we all unknowingly consume the services and products of slavery? And why are human traffickers able to maintain their illicit operations with relative impunity―indeed with less than .01 percent of human traffickers ever being held accountable for their crimes? Hidden in Plain Sight: Americas Slaves of the New Millennium documents how human trafficking and its byproducts touch every community in America from impoverished inner-city neighborhoods to middle-class suburbs and alcoves of wealthy estates. It presents information derived from narrative accounts of real-life trafficking cases interviews with convicted human traffickers empirical research and criminal case files to expose the grim realities of human trafficking in America perpetrated by Americans. Readers will grasp the origins evolution and extent of the problem; understand how trafficking plays an unrecognized role in our day-to-day lives; and see why advancements in awareness and anti-trafficking resources have not changed the status quo. The victims of trafficking continue to be criminalized by law enforcement and the offenders continue to exploit and profit from new recruits. This book equips readers with the knowledge needed to identify human trafficking cases and advocate for policy changes to end this scourge in America.Exposes the tragic fact that human trafficking is likely going on in every city of the United States often in legitimate industries and that every American has worn touched or consumed goods produced with slave laborDocuments the shocking number of human trafficking forms including sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth mail-order brides forced labor and sex trafficking in massage parlors and nail salons door-to-door solicitation crews military sex tourism child sex tourism domestic servitude gang-controlled sex trafficking slavery in the chocolate and textile industries and exploitation of undocumented migrantsFeatures a combination of direct experiences identifying and rescuing victims interviews with convicted human traffickers empirical research and criminal case filesLays out action items for the modern-day abolitionist movement to better prevent human trafficking victimization as well as to protect survivors and prosecute offenders