International Journal of Research in Economics and Social Sciences
  • Year: 2016
  • Volume: 6
  • Issue: 9

Human Trafficking in India: Theoretical Perspectives with special reference to the Human Trafficking scenarios in The North Eastern Part of India

  • Author:
  • Shatabdi Bagchi1, Ambalika Sinha2
  • Total Page Count: 11
  • Page Number: 109 to 119

1Senior Research Fellow, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad

2Head and Associate Professor, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad

Online published on 20 April, 2017.

Abstract

This article portrays the condition of Indian women and children who are known as the most vulnerable target within the dark world of Trafficking. In this article some contemporary theories, literatures related to the human trafficking in India had also been discussed as the supporting literature review part.

Trafficking of human beings, especially of women and children, is an organized crime, which violates basic human rights and has severe implications on the psycho-social and economic well-being of the victim, highly adverse implications are also seen on the society and the nation. By denying the victims ’basic rights to good health, nutrition, education and economic independence, the country loses a large number of women and children as victims to this crime, who otherwise would have contributed productively to its growth. Trafficking as a crime has seen an increasing trend especially in the last two decades globally as well as in India especially in the bordering zone of India, i.e. North Eastern states.

It has also been observed that, not only the women and children from the bordering states but also the from the areas lower wealth quintiles has been sold by their own household members in exchange of some meager amount of money and trafficked by some notorious people from the traffickers ’network through various transit points or bordering areas. So in India trafficking of human being is not a single theorized issue, the problem has many branches and roots tangled at multilevel of the society. The article documents the journey traversed by India in addressing the issues of trafficking in women and children from World Congress II (WCII-Yokohama, 2002) to World Congress III on Sexual Exploitation of Children and Adolescents (WCIII-Rio de Janeiro, 2008) It elucidates the good practices in the area of anti-human trafficking within the country which can be exemplary for the future path.

Keywords

Human Trafficking, women and children, North Eastern States, India, Theories on human trafficking