Drawing on original interviews with seven Nigerian women convicted of trafficking in Italy, this chapter examines the motivations behind the involvement of the so-called madams. The participants’ accounts challenge dominant public narratives that portray trafficking solely as the exploitation of naïve women by ruthless, calculating male perpetrators. Instead, their stories reveal a more complex reality in which madams themselves were drawn into trafficking through similar circumstances, aspirations, and migration plans as those identified as victims. The chapter offers new and original insights into a trafficking discourse that is largely victim-centred. In this context, the voices of convicted women provide an alternative perspective, as their narratives are not constrained by institutional anti-trafficking expectations that depict Nigerian migrant women as wholly naïve and compromised. Instead, these accounts open space for more nuanced understandings of trafficking; ones in which madams’ involvement is closely linked to aspirations for both individual and familial mobility.