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Trafficking in US Agriculture
Author(s) -
Izcara Palacios Simón Pedro,
Yamamoto Yasutaka
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
antipode
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.177
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1467-8330
pISSN - 0066-4812
DOI - 10.1111/anti.12330
Subject(s) - vulnerability (computing) , agriculture , position (finance) , debt , human trafficking , political science , qualitative research , business , development economics , economic growth , criminology , geography , sociology , economics , finance , social science , computer security , archaeology , computer science
Based on a qualitative methodology that includes in‐depth interviews with 90 Mexican migrant smugglers and 45 Central American farmworkers, this article analyzes the three separate elements of trafficking in US agriculture, namely acts , means , and purposes. We conclude that some US employers participate in human trafficking by financing or helping to recruit and transport Mexican and Central American migrants to the US by means of “abuse of a position of vulnerability” for the purposes of involuntary servitude, debt bondage, and sex exploitation.