Human Trafficking and Its Consequences South Asian Experiences through Indian Punjab

Abstract

Trafficking in any form whether humans or drugs and arms is an alarming form of newlinetransnational organised crime. It is considered to be one of the severe problems of newlinethe contemporary world. Human trafficking is the fastest-growing criminal activity newlinein the twenty-first century. Each year thousands of women, men and children are newlinetrafficked to use for forced labour, sexual exploitation, beggars, forced marriage, newlinedrugs and arms smuggling etc. All the activities comes under the process of illegal newlinemigration, which is supported by illegal networks. These networks are very strong newlineand wide. The networks are continuing to desolate the world s society as well as newlineeconomies. For aspiration of better life, people migrate from one place to another newlineplace, which may be internal, regional and international migration in nature. Such newlinetrend has also been found in the case of Indian Punjab. People started to search newlinean alternative route for migration because of the stringent migration rule adopted newlineby the most of the country in the world. Illegally migrated people sometimes might newlinebe trapped into the case of human trafficking. As a result of it, transnational newlineorganised crimes are growing very fast. A vast number of cases of migration and newlinehuman trafficking have been regarded with increasing concerns of human right newlineviolation, social and economic bleak and unlawful/undocumented node in this newlinearea. newlineThe study has discussed all the driving factors responsible for illegal migration of newlinepeople and lager human trafficking. The study also understands a very need of newlineadopting right based approach to curb the problem. The study covers all the newlinev newlineaspects of human trafficking and its intricate connection with migration. To make newlineeasy understanding on all the aspects of research issues, the study is divided into newlinefour sections. First section introduces the problem of unauthorized migration from newlineIndian Punjab. Second part shows the interconnection among the issues intricate newlinein the study. Third section testifies the ground realities in respect of theoretical newlineasp