Human Trafficking

3 units

The students participating in this class should expect to learn the present definitions and understandings of human migration in the terms of political science broadly, and human rights and security more specifically. Why are some people more prone to trafficking than others? Whose responsibility is it to prevent transnational trafficking? How does globalization both help and harm populations that are more prone to trafficking? Are our lifestyle choices here enabling or supporting traffickers in some remote corner of the world? We will spend most of the class period in discussion of the weekly readings creating opportunities for student lead investigation into these and other questions that surround this phenomenon.