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Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking de Monique Villa

Slaves among Us: The Hidden World of Human Trafficking

Autor Monique Villa Cuvânt înainte de Evelyn Chumbow
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 noi 2019

O femeie pășește pe o stradă aglomerată din Londra, alta servește într-un restaurant din Tokyo, iar un bărbat muncește pe un șantier din Qatar. Nimic nu pare ieșit din comun, până când descoperim firele invizibile ale constrângerii care îi transformă în simple unelte de profit. Monique Villa aduce o perspectivă unică în Slaves among Us, cea a unui lider global care a petrecut decenii demontând mecanismele sclaviei moderne din vârful unor organizații internaționale prestigioase. Ea nu scrie doar ca un observator, ci ca un arhitect al schimbării care a privit direct în ochii supraviețuitorilor.

Considerăm că forța acestei lucrări rezidă în refuzul de a trata subiectul doar prin statistici reci. Ca și To Plead Our Own Cause – Personal Stories by Today`s Slaves de Kevin Bales, această biografie colectivă transformă documentele și mărturiile brute într-o narațiune cutremurătoare care redă demnitatea victimelor. Descoperim aici poveștile a trei indivizi remarcabili ale căror experiențe din Ohio până în India demonstrează că sclavia contemporană nu mai folosește lanțuri de fier, ci datorii fictive, corupție și teroare psihologică.

Structura volumului este una analitică și progresivă. De la definirea sclavului modern în primele capitole, Monique Villa ne conduce prin „modelul de afaceri” al traficanților și impactul devastator asupra sufletului uman (capitolul 5), culminând cu soluții concrete de implicare cross-sectorială. Reținem că, spre deosebire de alte studii academice, această carte este un manifest activ; faptul că autoarea donează toate profiturile cauzei susținute adaugă o greutate morală incontestabilă fiecărei pagini citite. Este o lectură care transformă ignoranța în responsabilitate, oferind o hartă clară pentru cei care doresc să înțeleagă și să combată acest sistem al distrugerii totale.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781538127285
ISBN-10: 1538127288
Pagini: 224
Ilustrații: 7 colour illustrations
Dimensiuni: 156 x 232 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.48 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Rowman & Littlefield
Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor interesați de drepturile omului și de realitățile sociale ascunse ale lumii contemporane. Veți câștiga o înțelegere profundă a mecanismelor prin care funcționează traficul de persoane, dincolo de miturile urbane. Este un volum esențial pentru oricine dorește să recunoască semnele exploatării în viața de zi cu zi și să afle cum pot contribui sectorul privat și cetățenii la eradicarea sclaviei moderne.

Descriere

The horrific world of modern slavery is exposed in this book based on the first-hand experiences of victims of human trafficking.

Through the stories of three remarkable individuals who share how they fell victim to traffickers and how their bodies and souls resisted an enterprise of total destruction, Monique Villa takes us around the world-from Ohio to Tokyo, London to India, Qatar to Colombia-to uncover a parallel world where men, women, and children are dehumanized and reduced to obedient machines.

Written by a global leader in the fight against human trafficking, this powerful book uncovers the hidden world of slaves-no longer physically in chains-who walk among us, trapped in a cycle of exploitation. Despite significant progress in the fight for human rights, slavery continues to flourish. In fact, there are more slaves today, in countries rich and poor, than at any point in the past. By giving voice to survivors of this horrific trade, Villa vividly illustrates dire situations we can do something about. Her call to action outlines concrete steps to safeguard the vulnerable among us and to eliminate slavery in our time.


The author is donating all proceeds from sales of this book to help combat human trafficking.

Cuprins

Acknowledgments
Preface: Why?
1 Who Are the Modern Slaves?
2 The Most Despicable Crime: Techniques of the Human-Trafficking Business Model
3 From Nepal to Qatar: Debt Bondage
4 A Tattoo on Your Soul: Corruption and Impunity
5 The Psychological Impact of Enslavement
6 The Children of Bal Ashram
7 In the Mind of a Trafficker
8 Limited Options
9 Business Is Key-To the Problem and the Solution
10 Solutions: From Individuals to Cross-Sector Engagement, Worldwide
11 My Heroes

Index

Recenzii

A brief, clear introduction to the tragedy of human trafficking in the 21st century. A 10th-generation Parisian who lives in London, Villa brings a welcome global perspective to her overview of present-day slavery and how readers can fight it. She has served for more than a decade as CEO of the Thomson Reuters Foundation, which promotes human rights, and she draws heavily on that experience as she describes the brutal fates of the estimated 40 million people worldwide who are "forced to work, through fraud or threat of violence, for no pay beyond subsistence." Roughly 30 percent of the victims are trafficked for sex while 70 percent are trapped in involuntary labor. She includes oral histories of three survivors, two of whom suggest the range of forms modern slavery takes: Deependra Giri, an educated Nepalese man who signed a two-year contract for an office job in Qatar only to have to surrender his passport when he arrived, which meant he couldn't leave when his employer paid a fraction of the agreed-upon salary; and Marcela Loaiza, a dancer in Colombia lured to Tokyo by a con man who promised to make her famous but whose associates demanded, once she got to Japan, that she pay them $50,000 by working as a prostitute and threatened harm to her family if she didn't comply. Some of the crimes Villa describes, like sex trafficking, have garnered wide attention, but other shadowy practices are less well known. These include the Kafala, or sponsorship, system in place in the Persian Gulf region, which allows employers to confiscate migrant workers' passports and deny them exit permits until the company says they can leave. In the most useful parts of the book, Villa instructs readers on what they can do to support anti-slavery efforts, including donating to groups like the Human Trafficking Legal Center, which provides free lawyers for victims. Villa's use of real names and photos of survivors lends credibility to stories that might otherwise be too shocking to believe.

A vital guide for teachers, nonprofits, and others seeking to understand the global fight against slavery.

Villa, founder of the global anti slavery organization Trust Conference, makes it clear that slavery exists not only in West Africa, the Arabian Peninsula, and Southeast Asia, but also in the United States. Enslavement takes many forms: sex trafficking, debt peonage, forced domestic labor, and child labor, and all involve deception, exploitation, and threats of violence. Villa use the experiences of several survivors to explain how slavery can hide in plain sight: an American woman forced into prostitution by her boyfriend; a Colombian woman tricked into working as an escort in Japan; and a well-educated, multilingual Nepalese accountant lured into an abusive work environment in Qatar. . . . a powerful, eye-opening look at human exploitation and our complicity as consumers.
There are more slaves today in both the developed and less developed worlds than at any other moment in history. On any given day one might encounter someone who is enslaved, and everyone has almost certainly consumed the results of their labor. . . Villa, an investigative journalist and leader of the anti-slavery movement, uses the experiences of three individuals who escaped to illustrate the networks that target, groom, capture, train, traffic, sell, and abuse people, as well as the networks of law and corruption that enable this business to be so immensely profitable. . . Villa identifies practical actions that unaffected individuals can take to rescue people who are trapped and reduce the profitability that encourages their enslavement. This is a must-read for all audiences. . . Highly recommended. All levels.
Woven through the book are the first-person accounts of three people who were enslaved . . .Their words are harrowing, in places almost unbearable to read. But there is hope too -- in the courage shown by survivors, and in the chapter on solutions, showing what we can all do to fight back. Perhaps surprisingly, this book is an accessible page-turner as well as being a shocking eye-opener.
In this well-argued, moving, and passionate book, Monique Villa lays out the appalling nature and scale of slavery today. By giving voice to the slaves themselves, showing both their sufferings and their extraordinary humanity and resilience, she underscores her call to action for us all to end this modern scourge.
As a survivor myself, I know firsthand how Monique's fierce and relentless drive in fighting modern slavery and empowering those who have endured it has been transformative. Her knowledge and expertise, strengthened over many years of being at the frontline of this fight, is stamped on every page of this book, a real page turner.
I discovered sex trafficking through filming SOLD, and Monique Villa's book is an eye-opener on the human experience of slavery. She keeps the survivors' voices and weaves them with a global insight into modern slavery. I don't usually feel hopeful when I read about the issue, but this book had that effect on me. A tour de force.
Monique Villa's years of experience as an esteemed journalist, along with her tenacity and passion to protect those who suffer in modern slavery, are clearly demonstrated in this book. She has led the way in the fight against slavery, bringing so many along with her.