Rethinking the category of "victim": An analysis of the agency capacity of migrant women linked to traffic networks
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- Inmaculada Antolínez Domínguez (ES) Universidad Pablo de Olavide
- Esperanza Jorge Barbuzano (ES) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid
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This article is part of an ongoing research about the trafficking of sub-Saharan women, specifically Nigerians, in transit from Morocco to Andalusia. The methodology is qualitative and it has been based on interviews with technicians from social entities as well as workshops on creative narratives with migrant women possibly linked to trafficking networks. In this work we focus on the analysis of a narrative of a participating Nigerian woman. From her speech, we can observe key indicators that would place it within the category "victim of trafficking in human beings". However, in this article we show how the analysis of the discourse itself also offers other types of fundamental indicators in the women's agency, which are often invisible, such as indicators of resilience.
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