Profitable Proposals: Explaining and Addressing the Mail-Order Bride Industry Through International Human Rights Law

This article examines the mail order bride industry in the US through the lens of international human rights law. It notes that mail order bride companies are often front organizations for trafficking women into involuntary sex work or domestic service; given the violations against women's human rights, the author argues that the international community is obligated to regulate or eradicate it. Brocato first looks at the industry and evaluates it within the international human rights framework. She then discusses recent US legislation relating to the industry and ends with a series of strategies to address this phenomenon. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, International]