The document discusses three forms of human trafficking occurring in Hawaii: sex trafficking, farm labor trafficking, and fishing labor trafficking. An estimated thousands of females are trafficked for sex in Hawaii each year, primarily from Asia. Over the last decade, around 1,000 workers from Laos were trafficked for farm work via fraudulent visas and forced to work to pay off large debts. Crews on fishing boats in Hawaii, consisting largely of people from Southeast Asia and the Pacific, often earn very low wages of $350-600 per month.

1. Human Trafficking in Hawaii
By Skye Mackintosh

2. Taking a look at 3 topics of the
human trafficking problem in Hawaii
Sex Trafficking
Farm Labor Trafficking
Fishing Labor Trafficking

3. 1. Sex Trafficking

4. It is hard to quantify but,
by our estimates, the
number of females
trafficked for sex in Hawaii
each year is most likely in
the thousands

5. Most of the girls are from
China, Japan, Korea and
Thailand, Xian says. There are
also girls from Russia and
parts of Eastern Europe

6. 2. Farm Labor Trafficking

7. Some 1,000 workers from Laos were trafficked
to Oahu via a B-2 visitor visa scam over the
last decade, forced to work off their debt to
traffickers — as much as $25,000 each

8. Workers are being forced to
mix and spray pesticides
without training or
protective gear and without
the ability to read English
instruction labels.

9. 3. Fishing Labor Trafficking

10. Most of the approximately
700 crewmembers in the
Hawaii fleet are from the
Philippines, Indonesia,
Vietnam and the tiny Pacific
island nation of Kiribati.

11. Investigation found the fishermen are paid as little
as $350 a month, but many also get small bonuses,
lifting their monthly pay to $500 or $600

12. Information Sources:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2016/
01/paradise-lost-sex-trafficking-hawaii-
160120111423579.html
http://www.hawaiireporter.com/rise-in-human-
trafficking-impacts-hawaii/
http://www.foxbusiness.com/markets/2016/09/19
/hawaiian-lawmakers-promise-reform-for-
confined-fishermen.html

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