SLAVERY IN CHINA COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
JONES FOR COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONALSTUDIES.
DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
BY.
CHRISTOPHER C. BAKER.
JACKSON, MS.
OCTOBER 14, 2003 .
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SLAVERY ON THE RISE IN CHINA.
In today's modern society, we have several types of hidden injustices. One is .
slavery. Slavery is on the rise in China as immigration flows grow and private .
business blossoms. This is not to say that China does not know that these crimes .
are happening but what are they doing about them.
Unlike the forced labor in China's state sponsored prison factories, the illegal .
forced labor is happening in the countryside. It exists mostly in remote areas .
where underground or semi legal or private businesses that are often brick .
factories, stone quarries and greenhouse farms, are plentiful. .
China's dense population and small land mass, gives it the perfect climate for .
slavery. Also, the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power promising .
liberation, has done nothing to curb the trade. The trade in healthy young men for .
the country's crash industrialization effort rarely makes the news. And just this non .
publicized portion of slavery keeps it going and going.
Slavery in China is a term covering numerous labour abuses. More often the .
victims work in debt bondage, trying to pay off alleged fees and deductions in a .
struggle that leaves them permanently unpaid.
Operators lure unsuspecting peasants to their camps with promises of high pay, .
good food and housing. Once there, they confiscate their identity papers and lay .
down strict rules of movement.
China's household registration system leaves workers exposed to potential .
abuse once they leave their designated place of residence. It has also .
encouraged an attitude, already existing from the country's strong local .
sensibilities, of viewing migrants as second-class citizens. This form of .
citizenship is one that is set up to enslave. If a person is to move from point A to .
