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Forced Migration

Forced Migration. Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced and Victims of Human trafficking. Why did you come to the U.S.?. Pull Factors “Streets Paved With Gold” Education Medical Care Family/love interest Living Conditions/Stability Climate Freedom. Why did you come to the U.S.?.

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Forced Migration

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  1. Forced Migration Refugees, Asylum Seekers, Internally Displaced and Victims of Human trafficking

  2. Why did you come to the U.S.? • Pull Factors • “Streets Paved With Gold” • Education • Medical Care • Family/love interest • Living Conditions/Stability • Climate • Freedom

  3. Why did you come to the U.S.? • Push Factors • Natural Disaster • War • Famine • Overcrowding • Persecution UNHCR estimates 43.3 million forcibly displaced people worldwide

  4. Ship of the Damned – S.S.St Louis 1939 Nearly 1,000 Jewish refugee fled Nazi Germany aboard the S.S. St. Louis headed for Cuba. Cuba and, ultimately, the U.S. refused to allow them to land. About 250 of the passengers later died in the holocaust.

  5. Forced Migration - Refugees • After WWII, more than 6 million people were displaced • 1951 Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees • Individual living outside country of origin who is unable or unwilling to return due to a well-founded fear of persecution for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group or political opinion. • Countries may not forcibly return refugees to danger or discrimination There are 15.2 million refugees today

  6. Refugees in Florida – The Lost Boys of Sudan

  7. Burma (Myanmar) to Thailand to Florida

  8. Bhutan to Nepal to Florida

  9. Cuban Refugees …..since 1959 Most are not technically refugees under international law . Why?

  10. Asylum Seekers • Escape home country and seek asylum • U.S. legal terminology – others call them refugees • U.S. FFY2009 Grants 22,119 • 12,000 Affirmative/10,000 Defensive China 25% Ethiopia, Haiti, Iraq, Morocco, Colombia, Venezuela, Iran, Nepal, Russia

  11. Internally Displaced Persons • Remain in their own country • Involuntary movement – war, disaster, or human rights violations • Key Difference – Theoretically still have protection of their government

  12. Colombia 45 million people 3-5 million IDPs Democratic Republic of the Congo 68 million people 2 million IDPs Per Capita GDP $171 26 Million IDP’s

  13. Human Trafficking – Modern Day Slavery In the U.S.: 14,500-17,500 annually 80% are women and children Profits from human trafficking and forced labor reach $36 billion

  14. U.S. Law – Trafficking Victims Protection Act • (A) 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 • (B) the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage, or slavery.

  15. Labor Trafficking • Forced Labor • Forced Child Labor • Debt Bondage • Involuntary Servitude • Child Soldiers

  16. Labor Trafficking in Florida • Agriculture Industry • Immokalee • Gainesville • Palatka • Staffing Company • Restaurants • Hotels

  17. Sex Trafficking • TVPA requires force, fraud, coercion. • Most victims told they were going to work in legitimate jobs. • Kept in prostitution by force, fear of violence to self or family • Most victims are women, many are minors • Immigrants are particularly vulnerable Human Trafficking has been found throughout Florida – including hotels in the Panhandle and Tallahassee neighborhoods.

  18. Child Trafficking – How does this happen? • Family wanting “better life” for child • Stolen • Sold by destitute families • Seeking legitimate work and defrauded Since Florida implemented a child trafficking code, the first in the U.S., for the Florida Abuse Hotline, there have been more than 100 investigations involving more than 130 children.

  19. Questions?

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