Sex Trafficking in India-Exploratory Case Stu...

Sex Trafficking in India-Exploratory Case Study of Mumbai

Author Name : Sunil Francis, Dr. Santosh Salve, Dr. S. David

ABSTRACT

Human Trafficking is an organized crime involving overt and covert participation of several offenders at various places and at different stages of crime. Sex trafficking is a form of modern-day slavery in which individuals perform commercial sex through the use of force, fraud, or coercion. The clandestine and transnational nature of trafficking and therefore the reluctance of these involved to debate the subject make accurate assessments of the magnitude of CSE difficult.  A government commissioned by the Department of girls and Child Development (India) in the previous decade estimated the number of persons trafficked for CSE in India to be around 2.8 million, an increase of 22% from an earlier estimate. Exploratory case study on the female victims of sexual trafficking in Mumbai is undertaken in our present research work. The self-administered research instrument was prepared on the basis of research objectives. It consists of a five-point Likert scale. The Cronbach’s alpha reliability of instrument was found to be 0.78. Non probabilistic judgemental sampling was used for collecting response from female sexual victims in Mumbai. The sample size of female victims completely filled response is 64.Vulnerability emerged as the basic factor in the study. Vulnerability in this context can be defined as the diminished capacity of an individual or group to anticipate, cope with, resist and recover from the impact of a natural or man-made hazard. The concept is relative and dynamic. Physical, economic, social and political factors determine people’s level of vulnerability and the extent of their capacity to resist, cope with and recover from hazards.The study has been done with multidimensional angles and addressing various aspects and dimension of trafficking.

Key Words: SEX Trafficking, Human Trafficking, Vulnerability, Trafficking