Voices of Nigerian Women Survivors of Trafficking Held in Italian Centres for Identification and Expulsion

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ID9953785
AuthorsFrancesca Esposito (0000-0003-1698-5046, BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni Rome, corresponding author), Carla R Quinto (BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni Rome), Francesca De Masi (BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni Rome), Oria Gargano (BeFree Cooperativa Sociale contro tratta, violenza, discriminazioni Rome), Pedro Alexandre Costa (0000-0001-9826-9881, ISPA‐University Institute)
Year2016
Volume54
Issue4
Pages133-149
Publication date2016-05-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/imig.12253
OpenAlexW2345846241
LanguageEN
Citations received9
References cited17

This article examines the vicissitudes that affect the migration trajectories of many Nigerian women who experienced trafficking before arriving in Italy, and end up in Centers for Identification and Expulsion ( CIE ) for undocumented migrants. Their life stories, collected within the CIE of Ponte Galeria (Rome), revealed violence as “a rule of action” with which these women are obliged to cope with at different levels. Moreover, they highlighted the failure of traditional security approaches to human trafficking, and the necessity to rethink the measures adopted to ensure survivors' protection and rights. As it is conceived, the system of immigration control prevents the full guarantee of survivors' rights, often labelling them as “illegal migrants”. Finally, there is the need to extend protection to all survivors of human trafficking even if the crime against them has not happened in Italy

Action (physics · Affect (linguistics · Criminology · Human rights · Human trafficking · Identification (biology · Immigration · International Action · Political science · Sociology · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Sex work and related issues

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