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Thanks are due to my friend and colleague Kerem Özkan for this text concerning a serious human rights violation.
BEFORE YOU READ
1. What do you know about human trafficking?
2. Who exactly is trafficked for what reasons?
3. For what reasons are women trafficked?
4. Which countries do enslaved women usually come from?
5. How do you think they get to the developed world?
6. What do you imagine their lives are like?
7. Why do you imagine the problem can’t be successfully dealt with?
8. How do you suggest the problem be stamped out for once and for all?
9. Read the title of the text. Why do you imagine the problem is so big in Spain which is after all a catholic country and a member of the EU?
QUESTIONS
1. How was Valentina persuaded to become a prostitute?
2. Why is prostitution big business in Spain?
3. Who are most of the trafficked women?
4. What change has taken place in the customer profile? Why?
5. What effect has the economic downturn had on the prostitution business?
6. What does the phrase “Now it’s time to take them out for a drive” mean exactly? Use your own words.
7. How well prepared was Spain for the prostitution problem? How do you know?
8. What conclusion can we draw from the fact that business meetings end with dinner and a visit to a brothel? Use your own words.
9. How credible does the writer find the following comment: “But I think they’re having a good time”? How do you know?
10. How does the writer reach the conclusion that these women are modern day slaves?
11. What conclusion can we draw from the information concerning the gangs?
12. What shocking fact is revealed in the text as to why some of these women become enslaved?
13. What incredible form of promotion is mentioned in the text?
14. How helpful are the authorities to the enslaved women who seek help? How do you know?
WRITING TASK
Write either a cause analysis or a problem solution essay using the points made in the text and your own views.
The Causes mentioned in the text
1. Lack of legislation ( No laws distinguishing trafficking from illegal immigration, no laws against advertising prostitution)
2. Prostitution is an accepted institution (A customary end to business dinners, Spain a tourist destination, the article in the Barcelona newspaper)
3. Lack of public concern ( Not enough being done fast enough, people only pay lip service to the problem, outlawing prostitution not imminent, help for enslaved women hard to come by)
4. Vested interest ( Families are on gang’s payroll for selling their daughters; it is big business)
The Solutions hinted at in the text
1. Harsh legislation and punitive measures
2. Enforcing the above laws indiscriminately
3. Physical and psychological help for the victims
4. Education for the public
IN SPAIN, WOMEN ENSLAVED BY A BOOM IN BROTHEL TOURISM KEY AND TEACHER’S NOTES
This depressing and horrifying text focuses on a problem we know all too well but comes up with a few surprises in the shape of the role played by Spain; a fact that I certainly wasn’t aware of. The text lends itself to an essay and hopefully the students will become better informed about this serious human rights violation. It could be covered at intermediate level as a prelude to writing or at pre intermediate level as a more challenging reading task.
1. Her boy friend threatened to beat her and kill her children.
2. It is legal
3. Trafficked foreign women
4. They are young men; they take advantage of Europe’s seamless travel
5. Women are forced to work for lower pay.
6. It is time to see whether the new legal framework works.
7. It wasn’t prepared. Spain doesn’t even have laws distinguishing…
8. It is now an accepted institution.
9. He doesn’t. If any of them actually are, they would seem to be the exceptions
10. They are controlled by illegal networks.
11. The networks vary enormously.
12. They were sold into the business by their families.
13. Advertisements are legal and appear in the most reputable newspapers.
14. They are not helpful. Valentina was told she had to go to Figueres which was 15 miles away.
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