GEOG 353 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Maluku Islands, Contemporary Slavery, Southeast Asia
Document Summary
Identification of an issue needing to be addressed. Decision on how to address it, and communication of that decision(involves research) Effects of the policy or law(involves research and evaluation, loop back to step 1) Basic devinition: movement of residence that is compelled rather than chosen(involuntarily, types of forced migration, human trafficking, forced labour: classic and contemporary slavery, forced marriage, child labour. 4000 slaves freed from fishing boats: from myanmar, cambodia, thailand. Recruitment through deception": brutal conditions; forced work; unpaid. Involved thai and indonesian traffickers, with recruits from around southeast asia. Other side: consumption: many companies: sued for sourcing products that have involved forced child labour and slavery(hard to prove!, mars, hershey, iam"s, proctor&gamble, nestle, purina, costco, ikea, also allegations against: safeway, wal-mart, craigslist: fascilitating traddicking and slavery. Workers: usually lost to families(communication prohibited, when they returned, ptsd, depression. 40 million slaves: largest country: 14 mil, highest proportion: mauritania(4% of population_
