This article explores the connection
between the feminisation of migration and
the feminisation of poverty. Through this
lens, the author examines the experience
of 12 women who were trafficked from post-
Soviet countries to Israel. The author
explains how the "law of return" policies
Israel implemented in the 1950s led to a
major wave of human trafficking.
Traffickers used the cover of Jewish
immigrants returning to Israel to bring
thousands of Eastern European women there
to work in the sex trade. These women are
considered illegal immigrants and are