GS 108 Midterm

debt bondage

a person is forced to work to repay an unfair debt; related to trafficking because both forms use coercion and exploitation

coyote

a person who smuggles immigrants across the Mexico-U.S. border; they often deal with smuggling across the border of the U.S. and Mexico

convict leasing

system where state prisoners were sold to private employers after the Civil War; it resulted in exploitation, inhumane conditions for African Americans

latifundia

land estates in Rome which are worked by slaves; they are related to human trafficking through exploitable labor conditions

banality of evil

Hannah Arendt’s famous phrase meaning people can commit atrocities without awareness of choice; perpetrators may not be driven by malice but by compliance and exploitation

Trafficking in Persons

the U.S. government’s tool to engage foreign governments on human trafficking; traffickers compel children and adults into doing labor for them

Cesar Chavez

labor leader who founded the National Farm Workers Association; he worked with issues connected to trafficking such as labor exploitation and migrant worker abuse

peonage

employer compels worker to pay off a debt with labor, holding them in servitude; integral part of trafficking because it involves coercion, force and fraud

Schengen Agreement

treaty that established the Schengen area; required member states to combat trafficking through border control and police cooperation

comfort women

women who were forced into Japanese sex trafficking during WWII; these women were forced to be sex slaves for Japanese soldiers