1st Edition

Social Protection Programmes Narratives of Nigerian Women and Anti-Trafficking Practitioners in Italy

By Michela Semprebon Copyright 2024
202 Pages
by Routledge

202 Pages
by Routledge

This book deals with social protection programmes targeted to people trafficked for the scope of sexual exploitation. It provides empirical evidence on the N.A.Ve programme, in the northeastern Italian Veneto Region, and its evolution. It elaborates on the programme by narrating the subjective experiences of practitioners and of a specific group of beneficiaries: young Nigerian women – some in... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Social protection programmes in Italy and the experience of the N.A.Ve

Part 2: Nigerian women and their experience of the N.A.Ve social protection programme

Part 3: Practitioners and their experience of the N.A.Ve social protection programme

Conclusions

Biography

Michela Semprebon is Researcher and Lecturer in Sociology and Sociology of Migration at the University of Parma (Italy). She has been the Research Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the EU INSigHT Action (Building Capacity to Deal with Human Trafficking and Transit Routes in Italy, Nigeria, and Sweden), in the context of which she co-wrote several reports and is working on several publications, of which this is one. She has done extensive research on migrants’ inclusion policies, reception and welfare systems, migration in small municipalities, migrants, and housing policies. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on human trafficking and exploitation with a focus on protection programmes and, following her experience as a trained legal guardian, on unaccompanied minors and legal guardianship. Some of her recent publications include: “Migration Governance and the Role of the Third Sector in Small-Sized Towns in Italy,” Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022), “Victims or offenders? The principle of non-punishment and the critical protection of unaccompanied minors exploited in criminal activities in Italy,” Sociologia del Diritto (2022), “Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants’ reception in Italy,” Urban Geography (2021).