Nigerian women working as prostitutes in the North area of Turin
According to Dailymail , these Nigerian women Nigerian are being trafficked
to Italy hoping for a better life but often end up working the streets as
prostitutes.
Their plight has however been highlighted by Paris-based photographer
Elena Perlino, originally from Italy, who began to notice the presence of
young African women working on the streets during her commutes from
Turin. Elena Perlino said: ‘I decided to start from this surreal vision to tell
a story. I have been working on the topic for several years, focusing mainly
on the Italian connection.’
According to the new report, Eighty per cent of women trafficked to Italy
come from Benin City, Edo State, in south Nigeria. It is also shocking to
note that the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime declared Nigeria
among the top eight countries with the highest human trafficking rates in
the world.
The new report made it known that these unsuspecting young girls in a
search for greener pasture get tricked by some big aunties who are in the
business of human trafficking talk to them, talking them into traveling to
foreign countries to do honest jobs like cleaners and so on but get
disappointed immediately they get there. As they arrive there knowing that
they have massive debts to pay off and are expected to pay back the
traveling fees the ‘aunt’ (traffickers) spent on them.
Traffickers demand an average more than 50,000 euros (US $60,000) for
travel expenses and accommodation, with the women having to work as
prostitutes until their debts are paid off. ‘They are forced into
prostitution and are now increasingly reinventing themselves as madams or
working for the traffickers, also trafficking men, children for adoptions
and organs and drug dealing.
These are the activities of the powerful Nigerian mafia, which is also
involved in arms dealing. What has changed is that the madams are now
less violent towards the girls, having understood that if they mistreat
them the girls run away: the girls forced into the sex industry now get to
keep a little of the money they earn and this makes their lives a little bit
more tolerable.
As they cannot find a real way out, they get used to life as prostitutes and
prostitution becomes their only source of income”, Claudio Magnabosco,
former official of the European Parliament explained.
Here are some photos explaining the lives of Nigerian women prostituting
abroad:
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