Prologue: Afong Means Strength -- Introduction: Researching and Writing about Child Trafficking -- Part I Moral Panics -- 1. "Tidal Waves" of Trafficking -- 2. The Old and New Abolitionists -- Part II "Captured" -- 3. Snakeheads, Coyotes, and ... Mothers -- 4. Not Chained to a Bed in a Brothel -- Part III "Rescued" -- 5. Hidden in Plain Sight -- 6. Jail the Offender, Protect the Victim -- Part IV "Restored" -- 7. Idealized Childhoods -- 8. Healing the Wounded -- Epilogue: Everyday Struggles
Summary
Drawing on interviews with 140 children from countries all over the globe, Elzbieta M. Gozdziak debunks the myths and uncovers the realities of trafficked children. Trafficked Children in the United States offers insight into how the children see themselves, contrasting their viewpoint with the institutional focus on vulnerability and pathology. Gozdziak concludes that the services provided by institutions are in effect a one-size-fits-all, trauma-based model, one that ignores the diversity of experience among trafficked children
