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Taxonomy: Labor Trafficking Victims

Individuals who have been forced to work against their will in any of a variety of settings including sweatshops, farms, factories, construction sites, hotels and restaurants; as part of peddling or begging rings; or in private households where they serve as cooks, housekeepers or nannies. Domestic servitude employers often confiscate the legal documents of workers to prevent them from leaving. Labor trafficking can be defined as the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purposes of subjection to involuntary servitude, peonage, debt bondage or slavery.

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