Migrant women and trafficking on the southern border of Europe: a methodological research-action proposal

Abstract

Spain’s Southern Frontier (i.e., Spain’s border with the countries south of the Mediterranean Sea) is one of the most significant routes for migrants crossing from West Africa to Europe via North Africa. Therefore, migrant women are also often linked to trafficking networks for purposes of sexual exploitation. The life stories of the migrant women are fundamental for their identification and subsequent protection as victims of human trafficking once they arrive in Spain. However, these stories are filled with constraints, such as network threats or re-victimization, that involve retelling episodes of pain. Therefore, in this project we consider how to accompany the storytelling process of victims from the perspective of what we have termed “Creative Narratives”. The results of this study, for which we offer two example cases, show how through methodologies such as those we present, it is possible to detect the necessary trafficking indicators and to accompany them by initiating and implementing a process of recovery in a parallel sense.

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CONTENTS
Introduction vii
Eva Bermúdez-Figueroa and Beltrán Roca
Part I: History 1
Chapter 1 The Hidden Role of Women in the Workers’
Movement in Andalusia (1967-2000) 3
Eva Bermúdez Figueroa
Chapter 2 What It Takes to Be the Captain of a Tuna Trap:
Practice, Knowledge, and Skills for the
Sustainability of an Age-Old Mode of Fishing 29
David Florido del Corral
Chapter 3 Cultural Heritage Protection in Andalusia:
An Historical Review 57
Javier Sanchez-Rivas, Beatríz Palacios-Florencio
and Maria P. Pablo-Romero
Part II: Society 87
Chapter 4 Identification of Social Exclusion:
Analysis of the Policies for Inclusion in Andalusia 89
Irene María López-García
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vi
Chapter 5 Thirty Years of Social Policy in Andalusia 125
Francisco Estepa-Maestre
Chapter 6 Urban Social Struggles in Andalusia:
Approaches to the Politicization of
Our Daily Lives 157
Ariana Sánchez Cota, Óscar Salguero Montaño,
Esther García García and Juan Rodríguez Medela
Part III: Diversity 197
Chapter 7 Cultural Diversity: Problem or Solution?
Migration, Rights and Cultures in Andalusia
in the Age of Globalisation 199
Emma Martín-Díaz
Chapter 8 Migrant Women and Human Trafficking for
Purposes of Sexual Exploitation on
Europe’s Southern Frontier:
A Proposal for Methodology in Action Research 231
Inmaculada Antolínez-Domínguez
and Esperanza Jorge-Barbuzano
Chapter 9 The Exclusion of the Black Population in the
Present (and Future?) History of Andalusia 257
Susana Moreno-Maestro
Index 277
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