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Targeting Demand: A New Approach To Curbing Human Trafficking In The United States, Morgan Brown
Targeting Demand: A New Approach To Curbing Human Trafficking In The United States, Morgan Brown
Law Student Publications
Part I of this paper will provide a general framework for understanding human trafficking in the United States by laying out basic statistics relevant to human trafficking, describing the basic economic model under which the business of human trafficking should be understood, and discussing the major legislative approaches the United States has taken to curtail the increase in human trafficking in the country in the past ten years. Part II will then analyze the shortcomings of this approach and the successes of unique efforts to combat trafficking in Sweden. Part III recommends an approach the United States should take moving …
Seeking Asylum For Former Child Soldiers And Victims Of Human Trafficking, Tina Javaherian
Seeking Asylum For Former Child Soldiers And Victims Of Human Trafficking, Tina Javaherian
Pepperdine Law Review
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New York’S Law Allowing Trafficked Persons To Bring Motions To Vacate Prostitution Convictions: Bridging The Gap Or Just Covering It Up?, Whitney J. Drasin
New York’S Law Allowing Trafficked Persons To Bring Motions To Vacate Prostitution Convictions: Bridging The Gap Or Just Covering It Up?, Whitney J. Drasin
Touro Law Review
No abstract provided.
Dancing On The Borders Of Article 4. Human Trafficking And The European Court Of Human Rights In The Rantsev Case., Vladislava Stoyanova
Dancing On The Borders Of Article 4. Human Trafficking And The European Court Of Human Rights In The Rantsev Case., Vladislava Stoyanova
Vladislava Stoyanova
This article points to four worrisome aspects of the Court’s reasoning in Rantsev v. Cyprus and Russia. First, the Court takes on board the concept of ‘human trafficking’ without offering any meaningful legal analysis as to the elements of the human trafficking definition. Second, the adoption of the human trafficking framework implicates the ECtHR in anti-immigration and anti-prostitution agenda. The heart of this article is the argument that the human trafficking framework should be discarded and the Court should focus and develop the prohibitions on slavery, servitude and forced labor. To advance this argument I explain the relation between, on …
Who's Bringing The Children?: Expanding The Family Exemption For Child Smuggling Offenses, Rebecca M. Abel
Who's Bringing The Children?: Expanding The Family Exemption For Child Smuggling Offenses, Rebecca M. Abel
Michigan Law Review First Impressions
Under immigration law, an alien smuggling offense takes place when one knowingly encourages, induces, assists, abets, or aids an alien to enter or to try to enter the United States. Committing this offense is cause for either removal or inadmissibility charges under the Immigration and Nationality Act ("INA"). In addition, a federal criminal conviction for alien smuggling under INA section 274(a)(1)(A) or 274(a)(2) classifies the immigrant as an aggravated felon, leading to near certain deportation. Although the INA levies harsh penalties against smugglers, the practice has not showed any signs of slowing. In 2010, the United States Border Patrol apprehended …
When Federal And State Systems Converge: Foreign National Human Trafficking Victims Within Juvenile And Family Courts, Bridgette A. Carr
When Federal And State Systems Converge: Foreign National Human Trafficking Victims Within Juvenile And Family Courts, Bridgette A. Carr
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This article highlights the concerns facing foreign national children who are both victims of human trafficking and under the jurisdiction of juvenile and family courts. Human trafficking is modern day slavery in which individuals, including children, are compelled into service and exploited. Foreign national human trafficking victims in juvenile and family court systems must navigate both the state system and a complex federal immigration system. This article explains the federal benefits available to these children and identifies the best practice approaches for juvenile and family court systems to increase identification of and support for foreign national child trafficking victims.jfcj_1073