By Kira Zalan
President Obama called the fight against human trafficking “one of the great human rights causes of our time” and doubled down on efforts, which have been ongoing since 2000, to combat it. But 14 years after the passage of landmark anti-trafficking legislation, eradication of this form of exploitation remains elusive. In “Life Interrupted: Trafficking into Forced Labor in the United States,” Denise Brennan, chair of the department of anthropology at Georgetown University, uses a decade of field work to explain human trafficking and to identify its causes. She recently spoke to U.S. News about
misconceptions that have caused setbacks and what she says needs to be done to protect the vulnerable. Excerpts:
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http://www.usnews.com/opinion/articles/2014/04/24/denise-brennan-examines-americas-labor-trafficking-problem
