Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Vietnamese
girls smuggled into China and sold as child brides
Two main reasons
are to be blamed for this girl trafficking problem. As a result of the
decades-long one child policy and cultural preference for a boy, there is a
huge gender imbalance in China. Boys can’t find their brides. Where there are
needs for something, there is business to fill them. When the needs can’t be
filled legitimately, the price goes premium. That is why border-crossing human
traffickers smuggle girls from Vietnam to China.
Those who are
little educated or live in poor families are their target. They could be
cheated or even drugged to be sent to China and forced marriages.
They say “marriage”
but those girls aren’t documented. They won’t have social status or security.
There is no way to move out or escape. There are there without officially
recognized.
Read and think
of the situation those smuggled girls are facing.
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