Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
by Siddharth Kara
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Author: Siddharth KaraEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-11-10
ISBN: 0231139608
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Columbia University Press
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Book Review: I.....W A S.....A L M O S T.....A.....V I C T I Y......M O M,.... T O O !
Summary: 5 Stars
SEX TRAFFICICKING, INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF MODERN SLAVERY, is an important book. It is well-written, with nice large type size. It seems to me that this type of "white", or modern slavery, should become the next "Land Mine" crusade. As most people know, the late Princess Diana spear-headed a new interest in, and knoweledge of, this horribly body-maiming, life-ruining practice. Coming across this book on modern slavery makes me wish that I could do the same for this equally life-quenching practice. For it ALMOST happened to me. (And thirty or so years before, also almost to my mom.....)
When I was 4 years old, you see, my wonderful mother made the one mistake she ever made in parenting -- she left my younger sister and I in front of the neighbourhood A & P, whilst she did shopping inside. When she came out, my younger sister was there -- but I had disappeared!
My mom knew what to do. She went right back to our apartment house, and asked the help of the wife of our super....who was a former policewoman. This lady, Mrs. McGlocklain, somehow knew EXACTLY where to find me. I was in the very most back room of a local bar... As this happened when I was four, I don't remember the incident per se, only from what my mom told me about it. Still -- although my mom did not tell me this story till about 20 years later -- I always felt there was a kind of evil in that bar, every time I passed it. Also, I have not yet completly lost my fear of red neon lighting....though it has disappated somewhat since my mom told me the story. Obviously, there must have been red neon lighting within that bar....
My mom also toled me that when SHE was a little girl, (about 6 or 7), she was playing in a public park....when someone dropped a sack over her head Luckily, her uncle was right nearby, and he told the would-be abductor: "YOU LET HER GO!" The would-be abductor, (perhaps shocked that my mom was not alone), DID let her go.
I have in my possession today, a set of dishes which this uncle, (and his wife), gave to my mom on her wedding day. I call them my "Freedom Dishes"....
The introduction to this book talks about OTHER types of modern slavery -- the "labourer" type. This type is ALSO quite horrific, and should not be dismissed when and if interest grows in stopping sex-trafficing.
Some years back, the NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE had an article on modern-day slavery of both the "labouring" and "sex-trafficing" type. It began with a heart-breaking photo of a little boy, who was labourously putting bricks into the back-sack of a little girl. The girl's doll lay on the ground, and the caption began: "Bent and Burdoned", going on to explain how such labour, for little kids, could twist the spine irretrievably for their entire lives. The story went on, to describe how kidnapped little boys are turned into labourers, whilst kidnapped little girls are turned into drudges.....until puberty, that is -- when they are made into prostitutes.
About ten years ago, a story was told on New York City radio, about a missing little girl. After many hours....someone had spotted her! She was tied up in the back seat of a car, and was crying. But before anyone could get to her, the car sped away... Not as lucky as me and my mom....but I continue to think about her, and what must have so sadly happned to her....
All of this is, of course, quitre personal to me. But I write it here, because my writing of this will, I hope, show that this type of thing can happen to ANYONE, ANYWHERE, AT ANY TIME. Anyone -- of any gender, age, race, religion, or income bracket, can become a victim. (My mom and I are both white and middle-class). I was almost kidnapped in Brooklyn, N.Y. My mom was almost kidnapped in Montreal, Canada. I know that, had I actually been kidnapped, I probably would not have lasted very long, as -- being handicapped -- the kidnappers would soon have noticed this....and probably thrown me overboard.
Still -- in my imagination(?) -- I sometimes think these kidnappers may still be out there, waiting, watching for a chance. Perhaps to kidnap others that I
Whether kidnapped or rescued, this is a horrible experience. Some lives are ruined by it -- others, like mine and my mom's, merely deeply troubled by fears that will never go away. SEX TRAFFICING: INSIDE THE BUSINESS OF MODERN SLAVERY, is a very, VERY important book. Slavery of ALL types sadly still remains in the world today -- making misery, wasting lives, and enriching only scum-type people.
I write these words on 17th March, 2011 -- St. Patrick's Day! Nope -- I'm neither Irish nor Catholic -- but I DO know that St. Patrick was once a slave. As he became free -- and brought not only the kindness of Christianity to Ireland, but also got rid of all the snakes....maybe we should all also reflect on how important it is to drive the "human snakes" -- those who, still in this day and age, traffic in human beings -- out of EVERY country on the planet Earth. Maybe St. Patrick's Day is a special day to remember this....but also, I think, it is important to remember it...and help to DO something about it....all year long.
1-800-THE LOST
Summary of Sex Trafficking: Inside the Business of Modern Slavery
Every year, hundreds of thousands of women and children are abducted, deceived, seduced, or sold into forced prostitution, coerced to service hundreds if not thousands of men before being discarded. These trafficked sex slaves form the backbone of one of the world's most profitable illicit enterprises and generate huge profits for their exploiters, for unlike narcotics, which must be grown, harvested, refined, and packaged, sex slaves require no such "processing," and can be repeatedly "consumed."
Kara first encountered the horrors of slavery in a Bosnian refugee camp in 1995. Subsequently, in the first journey of its kind, he traveled across four continents to investigate these crimes and take stock of their devastating human toll. Kara made several trips to India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, the United Kingdom, Italy, the Netherlands, Denmark, Albania, Moldova, Mexico, and the United States. He witnessed firsthand the sale of human beings into slavery, interviewed over four hundred slaves, and confronted some of those who trafficked and exploited them.
In this book, Kara provides a riveting account of his journey into this unconscionable industry, sharing the moving stories of its victims and revealing the shocking conditions of their exploitation. He draws on his background in finance, economics, and law to provide the first ever business analysis of contemporary slavery worldwide, focusing on its most profitable and barbaric form: sex trafficking. Kara describes the local factors and global economic forces that gave rise to this and other forms of modern slavery over the past two decades and quantifies, for the first time, the size, growth, and profitability of each industry. Finally, he identifies the sectors of the sex trafficking industry that would be hardest hit by specifically designed interventions and recommends the specific legal, tactical, and policy measures that would target these vulnerable sectors and help to abolish this form of slavery, once and for all.
The author will donate a portion of the proceeds of this book to the anti-slavery organization, Free the Slaves.
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