Human trafficking isn’t what you think: Why education is key to stopping it
The recent focus on the Canada-U.S. border has led to frequent confusion between human smuggling and human trafficking. Smuggling involves people moving across international borders. In most cases, irregular migrants who are smuggled into the country consent to assistance. Human trafficking, on the other hand, involves the exploitation of people for sex or labor through coercion, regardless of geographic movement.
Continued conflation of these terms will undoubtedly harm anti-human trafficking efforts …
