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Human trafficking


  • Here are entered works on the coercive commercial trade in human beings for the purpose of sexual or other exploitation. Works on facilitating the unauthorized entry of noncitizens into a country with the objective of making a profit are entered under [Human smuggling.]

  • URI(s)

  • Variants

    • Forced prostitution (Human trafficking)
    • People trafficking
    • Sex trafficking
    • Traffic in persons
    • Trafficking in human beings
    • Trafficking in persons
    • White slave traffic (Human trafficking)
    • White slavery (Human trafficking)

  • Broader Terms

  • Sources

    • found: McCormick, Patricia, 1956- Sold, 2006:(summary: Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.) (DLC)2006049594
    • found: LCSH viewed, December 3, 2021(heading: Human trafficking (May Subd Geog); UF Forced prostitution (Human trafficking), People trafficking, Sex trafficking, Traffic in persons, Trafficking in human beings, Trafficking in persons, White slave traffic, White slavery; BT Sex crimes)
    • found: Gallagher, Anne T. The international law of human trafficking, c2010:p. 55 (In its original form, [White slavery] referred to migrant prostitution ... By the second half of the nineteenth century, the concept of "White slavery" was associated with recruitment to prostitution by force or fraud)
    • found: United Nations site, viewed December 3, 2021(Human Trafficking is the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harbouring or receipt of people through force, fraud or deception, with the aim of exploiting them for profit.)

  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the coercive commercial trade in human beings for the purpose of sexual or other exploitation. Works on facilitating the unauthorized entry of noncitizens into a country with the objective of making a profit are entered under [Human smuggling.]

  • Example Notes

    • Note under [Human smuggling]

  • Instance Of

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  • Change Notes

    • 2011-04-26: new
    • 2022-12-28: revised

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