SLAVERY IN CHINA COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

            
             SLAVERY IN CHINA COMPARED TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA .
             JONES FOR COMPARATIVE AND INTERNATIONALSTUDIES.
             DEPARTMENT OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE.
             BY.
             CHRISTOPHER C. BAKER.
             JACKSON, MS.
             OCTOBER 14, 2003 .
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             SLAVERY ON THE RISE IN CHINA.
             In today's modern society, we have several types of hidden injustices. One is .
             slavery. Slavery is on the rise in China as immigration flows grow and private .
             business blossoms. This is not to say that China does not know that these crimes .
             are happening but what are they doing about them.
             Unlike the forced labor in China's state sponsored prison factories, the illegal .
             forced labor is happening in the countryside. It exists mostly in remote areas .
             where underground or semi legal or private businesses that are often brick .
             factories, stone quarries and greenhouse farms, are plentiful. .
             China's dense population and small land mass, gives it the perfect climate for .
             slavery. Also, the Chinese Communist Party, which came to power promising .
             liberation, has done nothing to curb the trade. The trade in healthy young men for .
             the country's crash industrialization effort rarely makes the news. And just this non .
             publicized portion of slavery keeps it going and going.
             Slavery in China is a term covering numerous labour abuses. More often the .
             victims work in debt bondage, trying to pay off alleged fees and deductions in a .
             struggle that leaves them permanently unpaid.
             Operators lure unsuspecting peasants to their camps with promises of high pay, .
             good food and housing. Once there, they confiscate their identity papers and lay .
             down strict rules of movement.
             China's household registration system leaves workers exposed to potential .
             abuse once they leave their designated place of residence. It has also .
             encouraged an attitude, already existing from the country's strong local .
             sensibilities, of viewing migrants as second-class citizens. This form of .
             citizenship is one that is set up to enslave. If a person is to move from point A to .