China’s gender gap is fueling the trafficking of poor women, who are being kidnapped or lured into China and forced to be **********s or slave-brides.
According to the U.S. Department of State’s 2019 Trafficking in Persons Report, traffickers “increasingly facilitate the forced and fraudulent marriage of South Asian, Southeast Asian, Northeast Asian, and African women and girls to Chinese men.”
There are 34 million more Chinese men than Chinese women in a total population of 1.4 billion. According to the report, “the Chinese government’s birth-limitation policy and a cultural preference for sons” have led to ***-selective ******** and contributed to the disparity between men and women.
As a result, Chinese men, especially poor or rural ones, cannot find women to marry.
Some Chinese men choose to pay a high fee to marriage brokers to secure marriage to foreign women. Many then force their “wives” to become *** workers or farm laborers as a way to reduce their debts.
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