Presidential Seminars 328 - CHILD TRAFFICKING IN THE US

This course examines the conscription of children into labor and the sex trade, indentured in employment or bought and sold as commodities in the United States. It explores the causes of trafficking with particular attention to cultural influences in the U.S. that promote, or encourage willful blindness to, the practice. Specific topics include labor trafficking and its intersection immigration issues, sex trafficking with a focus on how runaways and children leaving the foster care system are induced to enter prostitution, and concerns about trafficked children in adoption. The course also explores the difficulties inherent in uncovering and policing trafficking and concludes with an exploration of efforts to eliminate trafficking through both domestic and international law and policy. Juniors and seniors with an interest in research, policy and advocacy are encouraged. (E)

Instructor Permission. Limited to juniors, seniors.