That meant that Enrico Jose, now 35, was considered a victim of labor trafficking, making him eligible for a U visa, which provides temporary legal status to undocumented immigrants who have suffered "substantial" mental or physical abuse.
In particular, the notion that trafficking can be bifurcated into "sex trafficking" and "labor trafficking" makes little sense in that one victim of forced prostitution may have more in common with a victim of labor trafficking than with another victim of forced prostitution, depending on the circumstances of the case.
At the time, I and other observers predicted that these jobs — a victim of labor-saving technical change, globalization and financialization — were unlikely to return.
Today, the organization estimates that at least 12.3 million people, globally, are victims of compulsory labor.
In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor.
More than half of the victims of forced labor are from the Asia-Pacific region, the International Labor Organization estimates.
"Some are abducted, some are wooed, some believe they are coming to America for a better life," but then become indentured servants or victims of forced labor.
In Myanmar, people who say they are victims of slave labor are using it to sue an American company involved in a gas pipeline project.
Editor's note: the photo caption originally stated that the ILO survey referred to trafficking victims; in fact, it refers to victims of forced labor, which may include trafficking victims, but it did not specifically attempt to count those.
