Precious Ndubisi on Noah Berlastsky " Human Trafficking Has become a Meaningless Term"

     
     In Noah Berlatsky “Human Trafficking Has Become a Meaningless Term” One of the intriguing points the author tried to prove was how trafficking was used to leverage the image of young women. And this was in the case whereby  young women especially the minority women were the one's been arrested on prostitution charges.

      Her argument led me to first question her title “Human Trafficking Has Become a Meaningless Term”. Human trafficking might not be something we put our thoughts to on the daily basis, but this crime affects the communities where we all live in, it is not meaningless like the author might have argued but embracing the language of “trafficking” as another way to justify immigration restrictions and surveillance isn't just right. What if that individual has different purpose inspired in the first place by anti-terrorism.
      If a case like this can be seen meaningless would it be because our society don't care about Human trafficking/ smuggling or has the issue grown to be that all they care about is about prostitution being illegal imagine the community being criminalized by trafficking and not prostitution, I'm sure there wouldn't be any better explanation for it.

    For example, the movie we watched in class about how American men travel to other countries like Russia in search of a life beautiful partner because women there are not as valued and tend to depend on their husband for support and if there's no “supportive man” in their lives they start to look for a man that can support them and here comes the old American men. Would we say this men are. Not taking advantage of this women to please their desires because they have all the materialistic things these women seem to want.
   One of the CNN news I read about human trafficking was about a young girl who was raped 43,200 times by human traffickers. Imagine the pain and sorrow this young girl has gone through. If only the community can focus more on stopping these human traffickers but instead their target are on prostitution. Below is a link to the CNN news:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/10/americas/freedom-project-mexico-trafficking-survivor/index.html


Why is the word “trafficking” used to target marginalized groups like immigrants and sex workers?