Life Of NIGERIAN PROSTITUTES In ITALY (PHOTOS) What a Shame!!! Why can’t they go back HOME??
WHERE THEY LIVE... |
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.
Prostitute waiting for a customer inbraod daylight |
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.
Another prostitute chilling at her ''home'' |
This is where they sleep since they dont have any real home in Italy |
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.
THIS IS WHERE THEY DUMP THEIR CONDOMS AFTER SERVICING THIER CUSTOMERS |
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.