Trafficked Children and Youth in the United States: Reimagining Survivors

by Elzbieta M. Gozdziak

Book Overview

Trafficked children are portrayed by the media--and even by child welfare specialists--as hapless victims who are forced to migrate from a poor country to the United States, where they serve as sex slaves. But as Elzbieta M. Gozdziak reveals in Trafficked Children in the United States, the picture is far more complex. Basing her observations on research with 140 children, most of them girls, from countries all over the globe, Gozdziak debunks...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813569699
• ISBN13: 9780813569697
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 194 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 16 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 11 and higher