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Hidden in Plain Sight

America’s Slaves of the New Millennium

KIMBERLY MEHLMAN-OROZCO, PHD

What types of human trafficking crimes are being committed here in the
United States? Who are the victims of traffickers? How do we all unknowingly
consume the services and products of slavery? And why are human traffickers
able to maintain their illicit operations with relative impunity—indeed, with
less than .01 percent of human traffickers ever being held accountable for
their crimes?
Hidden in Plain Sight: America’s Slaves of the New Millennium documents how
human trafficking and its byproducts touch every community in America, from
impoverished inner-city neighborhoods to middle-class suburbs and alcoves
of wealthy estates. It presents information derived from narrative accounts
of real-life trafficking cases, interviews with convicted human traffickers,
October 2017, 192pp, 6 1/8x9 1/4 empirical research, and criminal case files to expose the grim realities of
Print: 978-1-4408-5403-3 human trafficking in America, perpetrated by Americans.
$37.00, £29.00, €34.00
eBook: 978-1-4408-5404-0 Readers will grasp the origins, evolution, and extent of the problem;
understand how trafficking plays an unrecognized role in our day-to-day
lives; and see why advancements in awareness and anti-trafficking resources
S AMPLE T OPICS
have not changed the status quo. The victims of trafficking continue to be
• Child Sex Trafficking and Sex Tourism criminalized by law enforcement, and the offenders continue to exploit and
• Debt Bondage profit from new recruits. This book equips readers with the knowledge needed
• Human Smuggling to identify human trafficking cases and advocate for policy changes to end this
• Peonage scourge in America.
• Safe Harbor Laws FEATURES
• Solicitation Crews
• Exposes the tragic fact that human trafficking is likely going on in every city
• Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation (SAVE) Act
of the United States, often in legitimate industries, and that every American
has worn, touched, or consumed goods produced with slave labor
• Documents the shocking number of human trafficking forms, including
sex trafficking of runaway and homeless youth, mail-order brides, forced
labor and sex trafficking in massage parlors and nail salons, door-to-
door solicitation crews, military sex tourism, child sex tourism, domestic
servitude, gang-controlled sex trafficking, slavery in the chocolate and
textile industries, and exploitation of undocumented migrants

KIMBERLY MEHLMAN-OROZCO holds
a doctorate in criminology, law, and
society from George Mason University,
with an expertise in human trafficking.

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