Life of Nigerian Sex Workers in Italy
- Post 22 February 2013
- Last Updated on 22 February 2013
- By NVS/paolopatrizi.com
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.
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.
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Why,for Gods sake? This is inhuman. Can't the girls just get a (bin or bag or something) to put all these used condoms?
Meanwhile men can be animals. You will drive all this way just to get a paid lay in the bushes surrounded by evidence of other mens leavings (and probably smell). The girls must have customers there since they are still there. QUOTE:
When a person no longer feels human, keeping used condoms in a bin is the least of their problems.
These photos should evoke tears from the chief apostle of N4bn Women's mission house in Abuja. While some Nigerian women go all the way to Italy to live sub-human existence, she is busy "getting her's" left, right and centre.
Imagine if our Ambassador in Rome is directed to round up these "lost sheep" and she builds a rehab centre for them, counselling them and giving them a fresh start in life! If it wasnt HP whom I consider credible who made this post, I would say maybe somebody just went into the bush somewhere in Nija and created these photos just to give Nija hookers a bad name. Now, on deep reflection, which "animals called man" go into the bush to screw these hookers? Imagine if a bear arrives in the heat of passion and makes a meal of the customer and hooker?
Are you folks sure this is Italy?
Prostitution aside,why don't they just go back home Why travel to Italy and Europe and do your customers inside a filthy forest under subhuman conditions risking diseases from the filth,murder,snake bites and the harsh elements. What kind of men would want to serviced in such an environment? Low life drunkards ,lunatics and filthy unwashed homeless men obviously Even in the remotest of ghettos in Nigeria,ain't no ashawo plying her trade in anything close to these conditions. The place must smell like an abattoir Leaving the trade is another matter altogether But if you must do ashawo why do it on a refuse dump all the way in Italy I pray to God they are not sleeping there too This is sick and extremely disheartening What type of upbringing could produce a girl who grows up to see this as a way of life? These were once bouncing baby girls on a mother's laps o No little girl anywhere dreams of being an ashawo or being a 2 pence ashawo inside dirty bush What went wrong here? What are the women groups and female commissioners in the state doing QUOTE:
One of the state governors wives had set up a department to address this issue. What it the wife of the Edo state governor? Can we send a letter to the ministry of foreign affairs and the Nigerian embassy in Italy?
Even if they are too ashamed to go back to their papa's house let them go back to Lagos or Abuja and become productive human beings again. This is terrible! QUOTE:
You really have a lot of faith in our system if you think the Nigerian embassy does not know about this. I went to the Nigerian embassy here in the Netherlands and I was sitting beside a lady who insulted by the embassy staff for making a mistake on her form. She insulted him back and he started ranting about how Nigerian woman come to Europe for prostitution and living in the bushes (now i know what he meant). This is an official of the embassy, mind you. But even in my worst thoughts, i could not have pictured this. Sometimes one needs to be confronted with images like this to understand. I know a lot of women who avoid the embassies here in (continental) Europe because of insults or being labelled a prostitute. Shame ke? If you have a daughter (no education, no plan) that says she is going to Europe illegally, and starts sending you money, what do you think she is doing? I dare any of their parents to say they don't know what they are doing. QUOTE:
Hehehehehe Let them go to Lagos or anywhere else and do ashawo dia sef rather than live like mad women in Italy QUOTE:
But how do you bring home people whose family took cooperative loans to send them to Europe to go earn Lira with their God-given talent? They always warn the girls never to get deported or return home until they finished paying off the loans and school fees up to university level of about six to eight siblings! (How would their engine blocks not get knocked on duty?!)
Again, some countries, including the UK have been deporting Nija hookers. What became of them on arrival? They are herded into police stations, threatened with court cases for prostituting their bodies and after some "settlement", they are unleashed on the larger society, warts and all!  And some promptly begin moves to go back to base!
It requires a very committed government to bring home our Italian eyesores and give their lives a positive turn around. But, the sitting government should cringe in shame that in the whole of Black Africa, these Italo bush-residents were specifically identified as NIGERIANS...it sticks out like a very sore thumb.  Who will rescue them?
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A family friend advised me never to go to Italy because every Nigerian girl seen there is considered a prostitute by foreigners and locals. That is sad |
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