Triply Exploited: Female Victims of Trafficking Networks: Strategies for Pursuing Protection and Legal Status in Countries of Destination

The author examines avenues to obtain legal status in receiving countries for women who are returning to their home countries or who are unable to return due to economic need. She discusses asylum protection and looks at several cases where asylum has been considered and sometimes granted, arguing that asylum can and should be used as an available avenue to achieve relief where victims are eligible. She then analyzes the strengths and weaknesses of special trafficking visas that some countries have arranged, noting that policies that focus equally on addressing the humanitarian needs of trafficked women as well as enforcement issues are ideal. Finally, she proposes that where prostitution is legal, governments should examine the possibility of providing labour visas for foreign women who wish to work as prostitutes. [Descriptors: Migration - Trafficking, International]