販賣人口

加州的人口販運

人口販運是一種犯罪，涉及強迫或脅迫某人提供勞動或服務，或從事商業性行為。沒有單一的人口販運受害者概況。人口販運的受害者不僅包括因在美國過上更好生活的承諾而引誘從事強迫勞動的男人和女人，還包括在加利福尼亞出生和長大的男孩和女孩。

人口販運受害者在種族、膚色、國籍、殘疾、宗教、年齡、性別、性取向、性別認同、社會經濟地位、教育水準和公民身份方面來自不同的背景，但他們通常共有的一個特徵是某種形式的脆弱性。人口販運受害者往往與家人和社交網路隔絕，在某些情況下，與原籍國、母語和文化分離。許多性販運的家庭受害者是離家出走或無家可歸的青年和/或來自性虐待和身體虐待、、貧困或成癮的背景。人販子利用這些漏洞，向受害者承諾愛情、好工作或更穩定的生活。

California is one of the largest sites of human trafficking in the United States. According to the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH), in 2023, there were 1,128 cases of human trafficking reported, with a total of 2,045 victims involved in those cases in California. Of those cases, 697 were sex trafficking cases, 179 were labor trafficking cases, 126 involved both labor and sex trafficking, and in 126 cases the type of trafficking was not specified.

The United States is widely regarded as a destination country for human trafficking. The 2023 Global Slavery Index (GSI) estimates that in 2021, there were roughly 1.1 million victims living in modern slavery in the United States. While data on modern slavery is not aggregated at the national level, the National Human Trafficking Hotline (NHTH) reported that 9,619 cases of human trafficking were identified in the United States in 2023.