This essay will focus on the functionalism perspective in Human Trafficking. In order to gain insight on this topic, let us define the functionalism perspective and its ---. According to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, “Functionalism in the philosophy of mind is the doctrine that what makes something a mental state of a particular type does not depend on its internal constitution, but rather on the way it functions, or the role it plays, in the system of which it is a part. Though the term ‘functionalism’ is used to designate a variety of positions in a variety of other disciplines, including psychology, sociology, economics, and architecture, this entry focuses exclusively on functionalism as a philosophical thesis about the nature of mental states.” According to the U.S department of Homeland Security, “Human Trafficking is modern-day slavery and involves the use of force, fraud, or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial …show more content…
According to the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) there are five main types of human trafficking: Trafficking for forced labour, trafficking in women for forced exploitation, commercial sexual exploitation of children in tourism, trafficking for tissue, cells and organs, and finally people smuggling. All these different types of human trafficking serve different functions in different societies around the world. In western countries demand is high for low-income jobs such as agriculture, farming, and so on; people from developing countries would only dream of obtaining such jobs and once they are coerced into travelling thousands of miles away from their families to support them and give them a better life, they fail to realize that all they are doing is planning an early doom that will soon