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In the last couple of decades, Bangladesh has become a significant human trafficking hub, which links South Asia to the Gulf region; to Southeast Asia and to the further states. Trafficking of a huge number of people by boat (about 150,000 in 18 months from January 2014 to June 2015) from Bangladesh to Thailand, Malaysia, and Indonesia received special attention from both local and international media and the world communities. Especially, the issue of the use of force, fraud and coercion for human trafficking across international borders has become very crucial for anthropological and sociological investigation. This paper reviews major challenges for the conceptual clarification and empirical inquiry of labor trafficking from Bangladesh, though much of the current literature on human trafficking in Bangladesh has focused on the sexual exploitation of women and children. Many NGOs and International organizations still have of the opinion that in recent year, labor trafficking has perhaps become far more prevalent than sex trafficking from Bangladesh.
Thus, the present paper intends to delineate the current state of human trafficking, characteristic features of the victims, their life experience and trafficking trajectory, modus operandi of traffickers, and anti-trafficking policies of the government. The paper is primarily based on the study of some news published in May –June 2015 in the local and international news and electronic media on trafficking of Ruhingya refugees (living in the South West Bangladesh since 1992) and the poor Bangladeshis to a number of Southeast Asian countries through maritime route by boats. Some narratives of the victims have also been delimited in the paper to picture the roots, routes and magnitudes of labor trafficking from Bangladesh and to show how the innocent people of Bangladesh, who are seeking a better life are being tricked and exploited by the traffickers into the nether world of modern slavery.
The main objectives of this paper are to examine whether the i) ‘dramatic increase of population and decrease of labor markets in Bangladesh’, ii) ‘the failure of the government in recruiting Bangladeshi labor force in foreign countries through legal way’s, iii) ‘the increasing immigration restrictions by several countries, and the complicated processes, procedures and high cost involvement in acquiring visas and legal migration’ or iv) ‘the traffickers false promise of no cost or low cost involvement, and easy conditions of migration are the major causes for increasing human trafficking from Bangladesh or not.

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