Meta-Migrant or Modern Slavery A Conceptual Study on Human Trade

Human traffi cking, as modern slavery, is the trade of humans who enters legally or illegally to the land of a foreign country. It could be defi ned as commodifi cation of people as if they are commodities to exchange. Also, human traffi cking is a kind of trade that individual loses power of controlling on functions of his/her body as whole or partially and has to consent to commodifi cation. The victims of this trade presents themselves to the buyers, and they, especially women and children, serve their organs and labour as cheap workforce. Human traffi cking which is based on harming the body integrity and exploiting of victims abolishes fundamental rights and freedoms. Besides, women have become victims of human traffi cking increasingly and they have been undergone heavy conditons of poverty with the feminization of migration and poverty. It is a matter of fact that development and growth of the unregistered sectors generally base on commodifi cation of women. Actually, exploiting of migrants and women as disadvantegous groups is vital for unregistered sectors. Human traffickers exploit women with professional methods, such as deceit, threat, violence, abuse of networks, benefi t from their desperation and controlling mechanisms