Walking Merchandise - Child Trafficking and the Snakehead Trade

Directed by Ethan Downing · Starring Ethan Downing · 2011

Five Chinese children, smuggled to the US by 'snakeheads' to work off huge debts, share their stories alongside the lawyers, social workers and journalists who help them.

An eye-opening investigation into the hidden world of trafficked child laborers in America.

Walking Merchandise exposes the tragic story of middle-school-aged, Chinese children trafficked to the United States by smugglers known as "snakeheads." Sent by their parents to work as low-wage laborers as a source of i

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