Each title in the Contemporary Debates series examines the veracity of controversial claims or beliefs surrounding a major political/cultural issue in the United States. The purpose of the series is to give readers a clear and unbiased understanding of current issues by informing them about falsehoods, half-truths, and misconceptions-and confirming the factual validity of other assertions-that have gained traction in America's political and cultural discourse. Ultimately, this series gives readers the tools for a fuller understanding of controversial issues, policies, and laws that occupy center stage in American life and politics. Deeply researched and incisively written, Human Trafficking: Examining the Facts provides readers with a clear and accurate understanding of human trafficking in the United States and around the worlds as well as related issues in such realms as socioeconomic inequality, human rights, and international law. This authoritative and insightful fact-checking resource exposes falsehoods, half-truths, and misunderstandings about trafficking that have gained traction in America's political and cultural discourse. But it also confirms the truth of other reports and claims that have been made about trafficking networks-and shines a necessary light on the harrowing experiences of women, men, and children trapped In those dehumanizing systems.