How Strict Migration Policies Can Exacerbate Trafficking

How does migration policy affect human trafficking? Host Seth Daire and guest Amber Moffett of the Human Trafficking Center discuss how migration policy needs to adequately identity and protect victims, be aware of how cartels control smuggling routes, consider how hardline measures increase debt, and know that migrants who are being afraid to make their presence known even when they are being exploited. People who feel 'othered' are more vulnerable to trafficking. Sources: Aguirre International. "The California Farm Labor Force Overview and Trends from the National Agricultural Workers Survey." http://agcenter.ucdavis.edu/documents/CalifFarmLaborForceNAWS.pdf Brysk, Alison and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick. From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012. Chacón, Jennifer M. "Misery and Myopia: Understanding the Failures of U.S. Efforts to Stop Human Trafficking." https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=931448Colorado Legal Services Migrant Farm Worker Division. "Sheepherders Project." http://coloradofarmworkers.org/sheepherders.html Davis, Jason and Hallie Eakin. "Chiapas’ Delayed Entry into the International Labour Market: A Story of Peasant Isolation, Exploitation, and Coercion." https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4326006/ DeStefano, Anthony M. The War on Human Trafficking: U.S. Policy Assessed. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. Kempadoo, Kamala, ed. Trafficking and Prostitution Reconsidered: New Perspectives on Migration, Sex Work, and Human Rights. Boulder: Paradigm, 2005. Login, TK. "Human Trafficking in Kentucky." University of Kentucky. July 2007. http://www.cdar.uky.edu/CoerciveControl/docs/Human%20Trafficking%20in%20Kentucky.pdf Nir, Sarah Maslin. "The Price of Nails." The New York Times. May 7, 2015. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/nyregion/at-nail-salons-in-nyc-manicurists-are-underpaid-and-unprotected.html?_r=0 Mines, Richard, Nichols Sandra and David Runsten. California’s Indigenous Farmworkers. http://www.indigenousfarmworkers.org/IFS%20Full%20Report%20_Jan2010.pdf Planet Money. "Episode 675: The Cost Of Crossing." http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2016/01/08/462438973/episode-675-the-cost-of-crossing Sharma, Nandita. "Travel Agency: A Critique of Anti-Trafficking Campaigns." Refuge 12, no. 3 (2003). https://refuge.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/refuge/article/view/21302/19973 USCIS. "Victims of Human Trafficking: T Nonimmigrant Status." https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-human-trafficking-other-crimes/victims-human-trafficking-t-nonimmigrant-status USCIS. "Victims of Criminal Activity: U Nonimmigrant Status." https://www.uscis.gov/humanitarian/victims-human-trafficking-other-crimes/victims-criminal-activity-u-nonimmigrant-status/victims-criminal-activity-u-nonimmigrant-status