what the project wasOur project was called protecto comUNIDAD. We got to experience a lot of new thing, for example we got Skype with a school in Tijuana and we discussed about our research. I got to research human trafficking with a my group.
For my research I got to look up articles and attend an interview with a district attorney. We also got to work on papel picado which includes a lot of stuff llike pictures and designs with words. We also had to type an essay with all the information we gathered up and talked about what we learned and more in it. Human trafficking/Smuggling
Research Intro section How does one smuggle someone into human trafficking and how often does this happen? My topic is about human trafficking and smuggling. I’m choosing this topic because It's interesting to me how someone can manipulate people into keeping them as an object. How are young girls being sold and manipulated into thinking this is okay and that their safe? Another reason why I specifically want to do this is because it's not right and shouldn't happen to anyone. For the final project I’m planning on partnering up with Alexis and a couple of other classmates to work on a photoshoot that represents how people might feel about this topic and what it could look like. I’m choosing this as my final project because I’ve always had an eye for and an interest in photography. Something I want to know about human trafficking is how this ends up happening? How does one smuggle someone into human trafficking and how often does this happen? Things I’ve learned about human trafficking and smuggling from the articles I’ve been reading, is that Smuggling must take place across international borders but there is no requirement that a person must have crossed a border for trafficking to take place – it can and does take place within national borders. Smuggling ends with the arrival of the migrants at their destination, unlike trafficking it does not involve the ongoing exploitation of victims. Smuggling can lead to trafficking. For example, the circumstances of the smuggled persons change during the journey or on arrival in the State leading to them becoming victims of violence and exploitation. Research process My research process was difficult for me because I had a lot of trouble looking for sources that talked about smuggling. Most of the ones that I came across involved different types of human trafficking but I mainly focused on smuggling. I started to learn about human trafficking by first researching Something that helped me get a lot of information was when my group and I had an interview with Summer Stefan, a district attorney who specializes in human trafficking. I'm really grateful that she was able to take time out of her day to talk to us and let us learn a lot more about human trafficking . She was a really helpful source that gave me a good amount of information. I feel like I learned so much from her. She was able to tell us stories (cases) she worked on and I was looking forward to listening to them because hearing her talk about an actual real life experience of human trafficking and how that impacted her to work harder to stop this and the “bad guys” made me realize how important this is for me and increased my interest for human trafficking. Summer talked about what I need to know and more! She even made us a “combat plane” a folder talking about mostly everything we needed to know. I’m hoping I can get my cousin to convince a lawyer that she works with who is involved in human trafficking to get us an interview so that my group and I can get more ideas for our research of another person's point of view. I the interview was a success. Now what I needed to do was think about ideas for my final project. Photography came into mind it's a skill that I would like to convertible for my project. Alexis and I teamed up to planned a photoshoot with her at my friends Lourdes's house. I felt that my process went really well for the most part even though I did struggle with some of it, like trying to find the right article that I needed. What I've learned When I decided to research human trafficking I wanted to know what it was, where it takes place, how it happens, why it happens, and more as I got more deep in my research. According to US Immigration and Customs Enforcement “Human trafficking and human smuggling are distinct criminal activities, and the terms are not interchangeable. Human trafficking centers on exploitation and is generally defined as: Sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age; or Recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force….” “Human smuggling centers on transportation and is generally defined as: Importation of people into the United States involving deliberate evasion of immigration laws. This offense includes bringing illegal aliens into the country, as well as the unlawful transportation and harboring of aliens already in the United States.” When I first started reaching human trafficking I thought that human trafficking was just another term for human smuggling, I didn’t think that there was going to be a lot of difference between the two, but that was a common misconception that a lot of people also have and shouldn't be happening. According to the UNODC human trafficking “defines Trafficking in Persons as the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by means of the threat or use of force or other forms of coercion, of abduction, of fraud, of deception, of the abuse of power or of a position of vulnerability or of the giving or receiving of payments or benefits to achieve the consent of a person having control over another person, for the purpose of exploitation. Exploitation shall include, at a minimum, the exploitation of the prostitution of others or other forms of sexual exploitation, forced labour or services, slavery or practices similar to slavery, servitude or the removal of organs..” In my interview with Summer Stefan she talked about why some girls who were victims of sex trafficking didn't speak out because they were ashamed and I that made me think about what I want to be when I grow up why I want to be a child psychologist-to help people understand that this isn't their fault and that it isn’t ok. I also got to learn how to know if someone is being trafficked. The person being trafficked won’t be able to talk about where they are going or with who, but if they do then it might be scripted and might also sound that way According to (CNN) “ hey can't provide details of their departure location, destination, or flight information. Traffickers employ a number of tools to avoid raising suspicion about their crime and to keep victims enslaved. Some traffickers won't tell their victims where they are located, being taken, or even what job they will have. Because victims don't have the means to get home or pay for things like food, they must rely on traffickers in order to get by, forcing them to stay in their situation.” As a result they wouldn’t be able to tell you where they are headed and this is one of the warning signs that someone should look out for. They should also be looking for other signs like what they wear and if they have a tattoo that looks suspicious. This tattoo can be a name of someone. According to Blue Blindfold “People smuggling involves migrants being facilitated with entry into a State through illegal means whereas trafficking must have the threat of or use of force, coercion or deception against a victim.” I decided to talk about this topic because I feel that this topic is really important to me and needs to be recognized. Reflection I used to think that there was only one type of human trafficking and that it was just like smuggling but just different wording. But as I kept researching I got to learn that human trafficking wasn't only smuggling, it was many other things like human slavery, prostitution, abduction, fraud, deception, abuse of power and vulnerability, or giving payments or benefits to a person in control of the victim. Researching this has changed how I view the world. This made a big impact on me. As I mentioned before I want to help people, not just kids, to speak out and get the help that they need. They shouldn't stay quiet because they are ashamed of what happened to them. Working on this was a really exciting experience for me because I got to learn so much about something that I think should be taken seriously and should be talked about. When we got to interview Summer we got to ask her a lot about what human trafficking and what it really is. She also got to share with us a lot about her stories with the cases she got to work on and she talked a little about why she does what she does and how this has impacted her in her life. Summer talked about what I needed to know and more! She even made us a “combat plane” -a folder talking about almost everything we needed to know. I also got go to talk to my cousin and talk to her about getting me an interview with one of the lawyers she works with. I think this was a very good experience for me because I got to learn a lot about what I had an interest in. when reaching this topic I was very shocked by the things I heard and learned from the articles I would be reading. It was very surprising for me to hear that Human trafficking is the third-largest criminal activity in the world, and a form of human slavery. Human trafficking includes forced labor, domestic servitude, and commercial sex trafficking. Our team got work on something called papel picado. this is a decorative craft made out of paper cut into beautiful and elaborate designs. We got to pick a design border, and quote that had something to do with our research topic. My design was a picture of a hand with hand cuffs. The border was stars. The quote that I picked for my papel picado was "stolen dreams, stolen people" It took me a while to come up with the final product that I wanted because I was struggling with the drawing and cutting part of it and that took a while, but I got it done. we go to partner up with a school in Tijuana and got to Skype with them and talk about our research topic and how it was treated differently from Tijuana and the us. I really enjoyed the conversation me and my group would have with iman. I feel that this was a really good experience for us to communicate with them and talk about these important issues. something I also really enjoyed was when our coupe was when students from iman got the opportunity to come to our school. luckily everyone from our group was able to come and we got to show them around the schooling took the ice skating. I had a really grate time talking to them in person, spending time with my partner and being able to get to know them all. Works cited: Human trafficking: Smuggling http://www.blueblindfold.gov.ie/ https://www.ice.gov/factsheets/human-trafficking https://www.interpol.int/Crime-areas/Trafficking-in-human-beings/People-smuggling Human trafficking: https://www.unodc.org/unodc/en/human-trafficking/what-is-human-trafficking.html https://www.fbi.gov/investigate/civil-rights/human-trafficking http://www.sdcda.org/preventing/human-trafficking/index.html Photos from this semester |
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