The migration of women to different countries involves many factors that are
different per person. Poverty and political issues are some of the biggest reasons for
migration and many women continue to fall upon different circumstances. Migration
from third world countries sometimes lead to women ending up in the hands of sex
traffickers. I was devastated to learn that at least 20.9 million adults and children
are bought and sold worldwide into commercial sex trade. In addition, girls are not
the only people affected. According to a study conducted by John Jay College, as high
as fifty percent of commercial sexually exploited children were boys. It is also scary
to learn that a website exists to advertise prostitutes, and other sex related
advertisements. Backpage.com is one of the websites and they were accused of
signaling children for sale and were later pressured by the government to make
changes to their website like replacing sex advertisements with the word “censored”
in red. Migration does not only result from issues like poverty, it also involves
women who have diplomas in areas like engineering and Medicine. The amount of