Chapter I. Introduction

1. Rational of the Study Thailand is a source, transit, and destination country for trafficking. As a center of economic prosperity in Southeast Asia, Thailand has received trafficked persons from poorer neighboring countries, China and beyond into many sectors, including suxual industry. This is in addition to internal trafficking for sexual exploitation. They may add to or even be a fraction of the estimated 800,000 to two million prostitutes currently working in Thailand. In the early 1990..