Human trafficking
From Library of Congress Subject Headings
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 entry of illegal aliens into a country with the objective of making a profit are entered under [Human smuggling.]
URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2006002629
- info:lc/authorities/sh2006002629
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh2006002629#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Forced prostitution (Human trafficking)
- People trafficking
- Sex trafficking
- Traffic in persons
- Trafficking in human beings
- Trafficking in persons
- White slave traffic
- White slavery
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Sources
- found: UNBIS Thesaurus (trafficking in persons)
- found: Wikipedia, Apr. 6, 2006 (trafficking in human beings; human trafficking)
- found: LC database, Apr. 6, 2006 (trafficking in persons; trafficking in human beings; human trafficking)
- found: Google search, May 11, 2006 (people trafficking, forced prostitution)
- found: Interpol WWW site, viewed Apr. 25, 2011 Web page caption (Trafficking in human beings)
- found: UNBIS thesaurus WWW site, viewed Apr. 25, 2011 (thesaurus term: Trafficking in persons; selected variants: Human trafficking, Trafficking in human beings, Traffic in persons)
- 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)
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 entry of illegal aliens into a country with the objective of making a profit are entered under [Human smuggling.]
Example Notes
- Note under [Human smuggling]
Change Notes
- 2006-06-14: new
- 2011-05-31: revised
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