Human Trafficking from Vietnam to China

Because of the economic boom there has been an increase in sinister and exploitative industry, cross-border trafficking of women and children.  According to the Vietnamese authorities, in the last ten years, around 22,000 women and children have been trafficked to China. Single, poor, women with low self confidence and minimal education are mainly targeted because they want to get out of the poverty and get away from all of the suffering. They are promised well paying jobs and/or marriages to chinese men, which makes them much more likely to accept the terms of the trafficking. Due to the terrible conditions in china and the lack of women because female children are not liked many men have turned to finding vietnamese wives. For these chinese men the vietnamese women that they most likely bought as wives are mainly treated as “child bearing machines”. These women are raped and abused by their husbands and in laws. When the husband decides that he's had enough of the woman he will resell her to some other men. Sometimes when the women has a child and the husband decides to leave the woman has to care for the baby. Sometimes the in laws go as far as to keeping the woman locked up until she does what they want. This usually goes to them wanting her to have a child. Once she has the child she is let go and needs to care for herself. This trafficking is awful and ruins many peoples lives.