Orphans and Human Trafficking

Miramed Institute
http://www.miramedinstitute.org/

Aid to Children Without Parents
http://www.acwp.org/

In the past week I recently learned about these two organizations whose missions parallel, but in different parts of the globe. Miramed Institute focuses on helping orphaned children in Russia and ACWP focuses on orphaned children in South East Asia.

Their continuities lay in the global dilemma and concern of who is most vulnerable in processes of exploitation: children. These two organizations are integral to understanding human trafficking in the United States that has become increasingly focused on two migratory patterns of trafficking: South Eat Asia and South East Europe. In order to deconstruct/combat human trafficking here in the states necessitates a transnational lens that not only focuses on the demand but the status of the source countries. These two organizations provide what I would like to call the necessary hope in the anti-trafficking movement: organizations who focus on the most vulnerable and impressionable: youth/children. While each countries racialization differs and the commodification of white bodies and asian bodies are to phenomenons that can not be seen as the same, the globalization of human trafficking is evident.