TRAFFICKING OF PERSONS IN BELIZE - OAS

efforts to combat violence and crime. So, the surveillance of land and
borders is situated in a kind of “nobodies’ institutional land”, an ideal place
for migration flow.
37) Closed communities. Indian, Chinese and other Asian communities also
suffer situations of abuse. But victims are not able to report them because
these groups keep a great cultural distance and don’t even share the same
language. Belize is lacking programs that target these communities in
order to open them up to the integration with the locals. These hermetic
structure (it’s good to recognize that there are a few communities that have
been able to integrate adequately with the new social environment)
prevents any effort to get to know in what conditions and based on what
agreements many Asians bring with them the people that will work for
them. Many sources point out that there are workers that keep on working
in order to pay the expenses of the trip and are not able to change their
situation until the debt is paid. Also there are versions of passports been
taken away from some people. State agencies have very poor information
about this groups.
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