Meredith Dank Participates

Compared with research on sex trafficking, much less is known about trafficking for the purposes of labor, particularly regarding within the United States with U.S. citizen victims. Additional complexities needing examination include how labor trafficking differs from exploitation among U.S. citizen adults and children, how labor trafficking is experienced by youth who are U.S. citizens compared with foreign nationals, and differences in how labor and sex trafficking victims are treated, how their cases are handled, and whether the traffickers are prosecuted and convicted.