ABSTRACT
The subject of human trafficking has received increased international attention since the 1980s due to globalization, improved transportation and communication networks, and growth of the sex industry. The modern feminist's anti-trafficking campaign however, is split along ideological lines in keeping with their views of prostitution, and the relationship between prostitution and human trafficking. People generally agree that the worst case of human trafficking—where an innocent woman is kidnapped, forced to provide sexual services, and cannot escape—rarely occurs. Many studies on prostitution and human trafficking have focused on factors that motivate women into prostitution, or render them vulnerable to trafficking during the migration process. Some researchers may use covert methods as their way of obtaining information about trafficking; others depend on trafficking victims themselves to obtain information on traffickers. Anti-trafficking studies lump them together and count them as trafficked victims, perhaps to heighten the perception of the seriousness of the problem.
