Florida State University
Human Trafficking (Modern Day Slavery) What adult Education Practitioners Need to Know
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What is human trafficking? Trafficking is best understood as "modern day slavery." While some legal definitions vary slightly, the best general definition for trafficking is the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud or coercion, for the purpose of subjecting that person to involuntary servitude, peonage, (where someone is held against their will to pay off a debt), debt bondage or slavery and includes sex trafficking. This definition is based on federal law.
Trafficked persons have rights under the law. Some of these rights flow to them because they are crime victims and some rights are due them specifically because they are trafficked. Both federal and Florida law provide remedies and rights to victims of human trafficking. These rights and remedies are there to compensate the victims and "right the wrongs" that have been done to them: they have suffered extreme hardship, torture, physical and emotional abuse. Traffickers never pay what is rightly owed to the trafficked person for his or her work.