Book excerpt: Essay from the year 2011 in the subject Politics - Topic: Peace and Conflict, Security, grade: 8, Maastricht University, language: English, abstract: Slavery seems like a long gone practice from the past, but even in our times, people suffer from being bought and sold to strange people. Nowadays, as it is mostly described as a form of human trafficking,an unbelievable amount of 12 to 20 million people are believed to be traded as modern day slaves. This paper investigates how globalization has impacted the trade of modern day slaves and will look at how this problem is tackled by our current policies.