Lesson 2: Power, Privilege & Position in the Occurrence of Human Trafficking
This lesson examines how power, privilege, and social positioning shape the occurrence of human trafficking, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities.
COURSE SUMMARY
This lesson examines how power, privilege, and social positioning shape the occurrence of human trafficking, disproportionately affecting marginalized communities. By analyzing historical and contemporary examples, students will explore how systemic racism, sexism, and classism create conditions that increase the vulnerability of Black, Indigenous, Latina, and other minoritized individuals to trafficking. The lesson emphasizes how the structures of oppression disempower these groups while maintaining the privilege of those in power.
Students will critically engage with the role of power dynamics in perpetuating exploitation and learn how addressing trafficking requires dismantling these oppressive systems through anti-racist and anti-oppressive frameworks.
OBJECTIVES
Evaluate the intersections of power, privilege and position in the occurrence of trafficking
Define anti-racism, anti-oppression and reflect on the presence of bias in anti-trafficking work
This course is NASW Approved, and can be taken with the full bundle, for 12 CEs