Human trafficking for sexual exploitation in the Americas: Scoping review

Human trafficking is a complex, multifaceted phenomenon that seriously violates human rights. From an intersectional perspective and through the systematic selection and analysis of 22 publications, this Scoping Review aims to identify categories and dimensions present in human trafficking for sexual exploitation in South, Central, and North America. The concepts of vulnerability and precariousness guide the analysis in identifying the most frequent categories and subcategories in the consulted literature. It concludes that there is an absence in literature that guides preventive policies at the macro and meso levels. Publications that, from a human rights perspective, focus on strategies for collective or community organization to resist human trafficking for sexual exploitation have great potential that has been little explored.