Key Terms

  • Immigration: The action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country. In the action of trafficking, it is mostly done in a specific place and time as immigration.

  • Trafficking: The unlawful act of transporting or coercing people in order to benefit from their work or service, typically in the form of forced labor or sexual exploitation.

  • Refugee: A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster.

  • Victim: One that is injured, destroyed, or sacrificed under any of various conditions. As an example, the refugees who were faced with Human Trafficking are the victims of it.

  • Coercion: The act or process of persuading someone forcefully to do something that they do not want to do.

  • Labor: To exert one's powers of body or mind especially with painful or strenuous effort

  • Sex Trafficking: The action or practice of illegally transporting people from one country or area to another for the purpose of sexual exploitation.

  • Force: Making (someone) do something against their will.

  • Slavery: A condition in which one human being was owned by another.

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