Summary Of Sex Slavery And The Trafficked Woman

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Dr. Ramona Vijeyarasa, the author of the book “Sex, Slavery, and the Trafficked Woman: Myths and Misconceptions about Trafficking and its Victims” has recently joined the UTS (University of Technology Sydney) Faculty of Law as a Chancellor’s Post-Doctoral Research Fellow. Besides that, Dr. Vijeyarasa also holds an LL.M (an advanced law certification that has global credibility) specializing in international law from New York University. As she began her independent research, Dr. Vijeyarasa believed it was important to emerge herself within Vietnam, Ghana, and Ukraine because these were either under-researched countries or countries that were considered to have some of the highest trafficking rates. The organization of this book is to present …show more content…
Governments have begun to understand that they hold a great responsibility to not only prevent human trafficking, but to prosecute the traffickers and protect the victims. The reality is that human trafficking is quite a complex trade, and it’s a trade that goes beyond the exploitation of both women and girls. Dr. Vijeyarasa focuses the content on her book on the mainstream on human trafficking. She explains that these ideas are the driving force for governments, policy makers, United Nation exports, and academic circles when it comes to creating characteristics to understand who exactly falls victims to the trade. As stated previously, when human trafficking is studied either among members trying to end the trade or within the walls of a classroom, most victims are described as uneducated, poor and susceptible to deception. The manifestation of images of the victims of human trafficking in television, film, and magazine fuel these specific stereotypes to continue not only in society as a whole, but within governments and …show more content…
According to Dr. Vijerasa, most people believe that is the lack employment that increases the vulnerability to being trafficked. Women are discriminated from the work place in several countries, or they are even paid less for doing the same job as men. These factors are what drives the poverty rates and the unemployment rates, thus leaving women no other choice but to immerse themselves in the trade. If we are viewing human trafficking in a form of voluntary entry, then we can clearly create a relationship between decent work in the domestic market for women and