Posts Tagged ‘Migration’
EXPOSED: THE HOME OFFICE DODGY DOSSIER ON HUMAN TRAFFICKING AND SEX SLAVES
AFTER FIVE YEARS, the secret dodgy dossier behind the Government’s claim of 4,000 ‘sex slaves’ in the UK has finally been revealed.
The figure has been repeated countless times by ministers and is relied on to justify a wave of new prohibitionist laws – such as the plan to criminalise some sex workers’ clients – and to strengthen others, by closing premises housing ‘brothels’ for three months and arresting ‘kerb crawlers’ without warning.
But the means by which it was reached has been a closely guarded secret since it was first estimated in 2004.
Home Office Minister Alan Campbell: "The latest estimate is that at any one time in 2003 there were up to 4,000 women in the UK who were possibly victims of human trafficking for the purpose of sexual exploitation."
Enquiries both in and out of Parliament merely elicited the response that it was in an “internal Home Office document on serious organised crime.”
Even the Joint Committee on Human Rights was unable to gain access, and noted in Paragraph 78 of its report on Human Trafficking, that: “Though [new research] has not yet been published, the Government told us it showed there were an estimated 4,000 victims of trafficking for prostitution in the UK during 2003 at any one time….we have not been able to judge the validity of this figure.”
And we can now see why it wasn’t published.
The figure has been repeated countless times by the media as a definitive indication that the UK’s brothels are teeming with coerced migrants.
Yet the rationale in Chapter 3 of the Home Office’s study could be pulled apart by any reasonably intelligent Year 7 pupil.
To arrive at their 4,000, the Home Office researchers started with three sources: Read the rest of this entry »
UK has lowest percentage of migrant sex workers in Western Europe, but from more countries.
THERE ARE LESS migrant sex workers in the UK than any other western European country – but from by far the largest diversity of nations, says international research.
The survey is the latest by TAMPEP, the international networking agency that charts migratory patterns in prostitution.
It shows that, despite London’s very high percentage of migrant sex workers (76%), across the nation as a whole only 37% of sex workers are migrants.
This compares with an average of 68% in European countries surveyed, apart from the former Soviet bloc.
The low figure will be a set-back for Government ministers and national prohibitionists, who have constantly portrayed the picture in the London ‘bubble’ as being typical of the UK.
But despite small numbers, no less than 56 nationalities were counted in the UK results – way ahead of second place Germany, with 38, and third place Greece (36). The Commonwealth, links with former colonies and the success of the English language could all be factors. Read the rest of this entry »
