Exploitative migration takes place in connection with marginalization. Those subject to marginalization usually belong to minority communities. This book explores into this old yet on-going issue from different perspectives. Edited and published in December 2006 by IMADR.

Contents

• Contributors
• Preface (Nimalka Fernando)

Part One: Contextualizing Human Trafficking in the Global Era

• Human Trafficking, Human Insecurity, and Exploitative Migration (Kinhide Mushakoji)
• Migration and Human Trafficking in Sub-Saharan Africa: Exploring the Gender and Poverty Links (Thanh-Dam Truong)
• Trafficking in Children: Lack of Reliable Data Leads to Invisibility for Myriads of Trafficked Children and Youth (Helene Sackstein)

Part Two: Ground-based Observations on Human Trafficking, Racism and Marginalization

• Discrimination and Racism – Root Causes of Trafficking in Nepal (Renu Rajhandari)
• Human Trafficking, Racism and Minority Rights – The Situation in West Africa (Bisi Olateru-Olagbegi)
• Migration and Human Trafficking in Latin America: The Cultural Impact on Indigenous Communities (Lina Cahuasquí)
• Trafficking in Japan: Racism Hindering Victims’/Survivors’ Access to Help for Human Rights Abuses (Nanako Inaba)
• Sexual Trafficking of Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada (Erin Wolski)

Part Three: Addressing the Problem – Local, Regional and International Initiatives

• Women Returnees as Agents of Change and Hope: The Story of the Batis Center for Women and the Filipina Entertainers to Japan (Andrea Luisa C. Anolin)
• From Victimization to Empowerment: Experiences at KALAKASAN Migrant Women Empowerment Center (Leny Tolentino)
• Regional Cooperation to Combat Trafficking in South Asia (Nimalka Fernando)
• Human Rights and Human Wrongs: The Case of Trafficking in Persons (Jyoti Sanghera)

Appendix

• Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, supplementing the United Nations Convention against Transnational Organized Crime
• Recommended Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights and Human Trafficking: Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights to the Economic and Social Council Addendum