The Brazilian recruiters, most of them male, belong to different social classes and are between the ages of 20 and 50. Taking into consideration the general data of this research, some belong to the economic elite, either own or work for nightclubs or other places that belong to the trafficking networks.
For example:
"...in Ahalego, Netherlands, there are nightclub owners and
drivers who take the girls from one place to another, and
there are those who look for girls from country to country.
They are known as 'sueta'... In the nightclubs there are
the bodyguards, who are responsible for watching the
women... They control them and prevent them from having
contact with other people and even boyfriends... The
nightclub owner, the bodyguard and drivers may
occasionally act as 'sueta'". (Maranhao Report)
Many have public jobs in the cities where women, children
and adolescents are being trafficked:
"...In Guajará Mirim (Rondônia), we notice a recruiting
network that goes beyond nightclub owners. Girls under 18
controlled by international trafficking are recruited by men
who are well respected in the city or have a lot of money,
encouraging dreams of financial accomplishment.
According to statements from those who assist the victims
of this type of recruiting, the names of politicians and
public city figures are quite evident in the girls' report.
Many are connected to the areas of justice and
security...." (North Region Report)
According to the media, Brazilian males are the main
recruiters of international trafficking. Women are also involved in
trafficking by recruiting other women.
"... Girls who travel to the Netherlands, Germany and Italy,
and stay there for a long time, are forced to invite their
sisters to visit them, through fake letters and phone calls,
because they cannot tell them the truth. They are invited
and the guys send everything ...when they arrive, the guys
take their passports and they are in the same situation....
(Rio de Janeiro Report)
The recruiter's profile corresponds to the requirements of the
trafficking market for sexual purposes. It varies to fit the opportunities
presented.
Routes Used for Trafficking in Women, Children and
Adolescents for Commercial Sexual Exploitation
Trafficking is a complex form of trade involving the
movement of significant numbers of people both from region to region
within a country (Brazil) and internationally across multiple borders.
This presents numerous logistical challenges for traffickers including
both the physical demands of moving individuals from place to place
and issues of regulatory compliance or avoidance. To answer these
challenges, those involved in trafficking develop routinized practices
incorporating paths of movement, methods of travel, means of
addressing regulatory challenges and so forth. For convenience,
collectively these practices can be identified as trafficking routes.
Studying trafficking routes represents a particularly useful and
important means by which to research trafficking. First, while there is
some evidence that a significant amount of international trafficking is
operated by organized crime which controls the process from the
woman or child's point of entry into the trafficking system up through
their final disposition (either through a one time sale to a "consumer"
or placement in a brothel controlled by the criminal organization), it is
also possible that a trafficking route may be constituted by a less formal
association of unrelated independent agents whose operations are
limited to one small segment within the chain.
For example, while we
know that individuals are passed between internal trafficking networks
within Brazil and international networks that move those individuals to
foreign countries, the linkage between the two may be nothing more
than that of a seller (the internal trafficker) and buyer (the individual or
group responsible for introducing the trafficked person into that
particular trafficking route at that particular point of contact).