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What is HBO Saga Westworld

Handbook of Research on Present and Future Paradigms in Human Trafficking
This is an HBO saga that brings some reflection on themes associated to hospitality, robots, artificial intelligence and freedom. The plot is situated in a dystopian world where hosts are brutalised and killed by rich tourists who pay to liberate their sadist instincts.
Published in Chapter:
Failed Hospitality: Human Trafficking in the HBO Saga Westworld
Maximiliano Emanuel Korstanje (University of Palermo, Argentina)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9282-3.ch015
Abstract
Human trafficking is doubtless a major crime – jointly with terrorism and child abuse. It is estimated that more than two billion people are missing in the world each year. These numbers associate to human trafficking as an illegal act—known as well as slavery—where the victims not only are deprived of their liberty but also forced to be enslaved or sexually exploited. Trafficking victims include women, men, and children of all ages and social classes. In the field of tourism, human trafficking leads to sexual activities. Human trafficking is certainly based on a much deeper process where the victim is under-humanised, which the victim lacks any basic right or legal protection during its captivity. This under-valorisation process centres on what specialists dubbed “desensitization dynamic.” The captor feels little empathy for the hosted victim or feels he or she should not be considered a human being. This process has been widely studied by clinical psychology, but little is known about the desensitization process in the fields of tourism and hospitality.
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