Homegoing Book Summary

In the book Homegoing, by Yaa Gyasi, the author focuses on the impact that slavery had throughout two generations, one in Africa and one in America. Modern day slavery and human trafficking is a big issues today even though most countries have laws that try to stop these unfortunate events from happening over and over. In the book, the Africans should and could be considered victims of what today would be called human trafficking, even though it was the normal back then for these things to happen. With 20 to 30 million slaves worldwide, human trafficking is the third largest crime industry globally, profiting 32 million dollars every year (11 Facts). Homegoing explores the same concepts of modern day slavery and victims of slavery and being

For example, CNN has there own organization called the Freedom Project, which is a separate webpage filled with articles about human trafficking, and everything that the world and countries are trying to do to stop it. Some organizations and charities include, Salvation Army, Save the Children, UNICEF, World Hope International, Polaris Project, Free the Slaves, Free The Girls, Anti-Slavery International and 3Strands Global (How to help). Countries also fall onto the “Tier”, which there are 4 of them and put every country into a tier of how much they are trying to do to stop human trafficking. Tier 1, are “Countries whose governments fully meet the Trafficking Victims Protection Act’s minimum standards” like the United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Iceland, South Korea, New Zealand, most of Europe, Canada, Chile, Bahamas, and Taiwan (Tier Placements). Tier 2 are “Countries whose government do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those standards” like Japan, Dominican Republic, Fiji,, Greece, Iraw, Mexico, South Africa, Turkey, Peru, Kenya, India (Tier Placements). There is a Tier 2 Watchlist which is “Countries whose governments do not fully meet the TVPA’s minimum standards, but are making significant efforts to meet those standards AND the absolute number of victims of severe forms of trafficking is very significant or is significantly increasing and there is a failure to provide evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons…” countries like Bolivia, Costa Rica, China, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Ukraine, Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Cameroon (Tier Placements). Tier 3 is the last tier which is “Countries whose governments do not fully meet the minimum standards and are not making significant efforts to do so” like Haiti, Iran, Russia, Sudan, Syria, North Korea, Algeria, Venezuela (Tier