{"id":400,"date":"2008-08-25T10:27:02","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T15:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=400"},"modified":"2008-08-25T10:27:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T15:27:02","slug":"slaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/weeklyrob.com\/?p=400","title":{"rendered":"Slaves"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I read an article<\/a> in the Wilson’s Quarterly about modern-day slavery. The author, John Miller, calls for action: First for laws and enforcement of those laws, and second, for education.<\/p>\n

Two examples of education:<\/p>\n

1. He spoke in Japan about the thousands of Japanese work visas given to Female filipino “entertainers.” Within a couple of years, those visas were reduced dramatically.<\/p>\n

2. In certain places, men caught with prostitutes have to attend classes, where they learn how the demand for prostitutes drives sex slavery. It appears as though recidivism rates (of johns) are lower in those areas.<\/p>\n

Miller relates stories of women who have thought they were going to work as a housekeeper, or model, or dancer. They end up being beaten, threatened, tortured. Some of them are sex slaves, of course, but some are worker-slaves in factories or households. So they really may end up a housekeeper, but in chains.<\/p>\n

He doesn’t want it to be called human trafficking, because that hides the nastiness of it. Call it slavery, he says.<\/p>\n

The whole time I read the article, I wanted to re-read an earlier one from the New Statesman. It was a book review, called The Myth of Trafficking<\/a>. The review was of a book<\/a> by Laura Agustin, claiming that cries of sex-trafficking are making a mountain out of a molehill. (The book doesn’t talk about non-sex trafficking.)<\/p>\n

One thing Agustin says is that when groups report the number of victims, they often include all migrant prostitutes in the report. As though there couldn’t be a woman who migrated and became a prostitute without being enslaved. So the numbers are wildly inflated.<\/p>\n

Agustin thinks that the laws making it harder for migration (some of which are anti-trafficking laws) are actually counter-productive. The harder they make it for people to come legitimately, the more they’ll come as sex-workers, because sex-workers can get people to bring them in.<\/p>\n

I don’t know how a smackdown between Agustin and Miller would turn out. I think they’d be able to agree on the education side of the deal.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, and completely off that topic, Miller uses the phrase, “moral suasion” in his article, which I thought was a typo. Go figure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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