Modern-Day Slavery: Exploring the Women Trafficking Issue in the USA

Abstract

Modern-day slavery and human trafficking have become a widespread issue across the world today. Practices including forced labor, debt bondage, child labor, forced marriage, and human trafficking and more are occurring in every country, including the United States. The following thesis aims to explore the forces and the conditions contributing to the phenomenon of modern-day slavery and women trafficking in the USA. The dissertation proofs that modern-day slavery and women trafficking exist worldwide and in the United States. This dissertation begins by providing a relevant historical background to chattel slavery leading up to the present-day slavery. By speaking of modern-day slavery definitions ,its forms has been provided, in addition to the main causes that led to this phenomenon and showing the harm occurring to the victims of this enslavement. From the many forms, we focused more on human trafficking and forms, and causes in addition to the global efforts to combat it. Finally, another focus was made on women trafficking in the United States by referring to specific cases of victims from different nationalities to clarify and offer a detailed insight into this phenomenon