THE MODERN SLAVE TRADE

There are many different ways to study trafficking and I have chosen to do it from three different angles. First, I ask myself which role does globalization play when it comes to trafficking? The globalization has affected the countries in the Mekong Sub-region in different ways. Thailand is the one country where the globalization has come the furthest, with the globalization of both the economy and politics. This can be because they have a different political structure than the other countries in the region. The second group consists of China and Vietnam, which just very recently have started to open up their economies, and changed their tourism policies- both aspects that affect trafficking a great deal. The last group is Myanmar, Laos PDR and Cambodia; these are countries that have started to change both their political and economical structures. The second angle that I use is to look at how the situation is in the different countries and what is trafficking? The trafficking takes different forms in the different countries, and here I divide the countries into three different categories; sending, transiting and receiving countries. Once again Thailand stands out alone, but this time closely followed by Cambodia