Credit: Paolo Patrizi/ Migration
The phenomenon of foreign women, who line the roadsides of Italy, has
become a notorious fact of Italian life. These women work in sub-human
conditions; they are sent out without any hope of regularizing their
legal status and can be easily transferred into criminal networks.
Many are Africans working as prostitutes to send money home to their
families. For nearly twenty years the women of Benin City, a town in the
state of Edo in the south-central part of Nigeria, have been going to
Italy to work in the sex trade and every year successful ones have been
recruiting younger girls to follow them.
The Nigerian trafficking industry is fueled by the combination of
widespread emigration aspirations and severely limited possibilities for
migrating to Europe.The term Trafficking of persons is restricted to
instances where people are deceived, threatened, or coerced into
situations of exploitation, including prostitution. This contrasts with
Human smuggling, in which a migrant purchases services to circumvent
immigration restrictions, but it is not a victim of deception or
exploitation. More pictures after the cut......
Most migrant women, including those who end up in the sex industry,
have made a clear decision to leave home and take their chances
overseas. They are headstrong and ambitious women who migrate in order
to escape conflict, persecution, environmental degradation, natural
disasters and other situations that affect their habitat and livelihood.
Ensuring a better future for one’s family in Nigeria is a principal
motivation for emigration within and outside the trafficking networks.
Working abroad is therefore often seen as the best strategy for escaping
poverty. The success of many Italos, as these women are called, is
evident in Edo. For many girls prostitution in Italy has become an
entirely acceptable trade and the legend of their success makes the
fight against sex traffickers all the more difficult.
One concern is that the anti-trafficking crusade is causing effects
opposite to its objectives. What presents itself as a campaign to
protect migrants from harm is actually making their efforts to flee
home, to find work, to make the most of their lives in often difficult
and unforgiving circumstances, much harder.
Miss Susan, Can you quickly remove this stupid post and stop ascribing the name Nigeria to that your rubbish up there. If you are not the writer of this tell me who is, i want to write to the person.
ReplyDeleteThis is as amazing as it is unbelievable.
ReplyDeleteThis environment looks more like one african 'evil forest' than a Mediterranean vegetation, couldnt those women show their faces and advertise their wares on the net with their phone numbers, as they do else where,there is evidence of their being domicled in that bush, so they still live somewhere in town,and you tell me their customers dont have better houses or even motels/brothels/gardens/ etc to stay and do their thing, so they just drive out from town and come to this lonely 'outer darkness' to have sex, why not do it in back seat of their cars or save the transport fare and pick the ones in the town centre ????? Nigerians are not as gullible as you think.
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