Aren foreign women involved in the UK sex industry simply migrant sex workers?
The majority of trafficking victims did not engage in prostitution in their home country and come here under the illusion of their trafficker that they are going to undertake legitimate work. For the minority of women that are aware that they are going to become involved in the sex industry, they usually have no idea of the slave like conditions that will be imposed. Trafficking in persons is the use of coercion, force, deception or exploitation of vulnerability to move a person from one place to another, and then to exploit the person, generally for gain. Trafficking is not the same as smuggling. Smuggling involves assisting someone for a fee, and once the individual has arrived in the country of destination, there is no further link between the individual and the smuggler. Trafficking is for the purpose of exploitation and the exploitative relationship between the trafficked person and the trafficker continues in the country of destination.
