Download or read book Motherhood in the Context of Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation written by Rafaela Pascoal and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-07-27 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses motherhood of Nigerian and Romanian women in Italy and Romania, who are human trafficking victims for sexual purposes. It provides a broad gender approach to emerge on the phenomenon of human trafficking with an analytic perspective of all the social, cultural, legal and economic components that play an important role during all phases of motherhood. The book compares the motherhood of these two nationalities within a context of an illegal/legal status in the European territory. It reflects on the used terms of vulnerability, sexual exploitation, victim, resistance and resilience. This book enlightens scholars and students with a broad perspective on this complex phenomenon, understanding the intersectionality of the victims’ features and its relation with the several push and pull factors that lead a human trafficking victim into vulnerability, resistance and resilience.