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This chapter provides an analysis of the cross-cutting issues of women’s migration, smuggling and trafficking using the case of migrants from and within West and Central Africa (WCA). Drawing on data from Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Sudan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, we discuss the migration trends and irregular channels used by most women migrants. The chapter analyses the causes and uneven consequences for women and girl migrants in terms of greater barriers to migration, risks of exploitation and harm along the way, and the resulting poor socioeconomic outcomes. The complex relationship between different forms of inequality and migration requires an understanding of both the positive potential of migration as a force for progressive social change and its capacity to reinforce existing inequalities and support the status quo. The chapter addresses the interlinkages between migration, smuggling and/or trafficking from a gender angle. We argue that migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in women and girls are cross-cutting issues as well as policy domains. Combating smuggling and trafficking therefore requires an integrated policy approach that ensures that policies, laws, programmes and services recognise and address the specific needs, and gendered challenges and vulnerabilities of women at home and women and girl migrants, as well as those of LGBTQI2S+ migrants.

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Women’s Exclusion from the Migration Pathways and Fair Recruitment Envisaged by the Global Compact for Migration: Evidence from West and Central Africa

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    2025年

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  • Jenna Hennebry,
  • K. C. Hari,
  • Rosemary Kimani-Dupuis

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This chapter provides an analysis of the cross-cutting issues of women’s migration, smuggling and trafficking using the case of migrants from and within West and Central Africa (WCA). Drawing on data from Côte d’Ivoire, Senegal, Sudan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, we discuss the migration trends and irregular channels used by most women migrants. The chapter analyses the causes and uneven consequences for women and girl migrants in terms of greater barriers to migration, risks of exploitation and harm along the way, and the resulting poor socioeconomic outcomes. The complex relationship between different forms of inequality and migration requires an understanding of both the positive potential of migration as a force for progressive social change and its capacity to reinforce existing inequalities and support the status quo. The chapter addresses the interlinkages between migration, smuggling and/or trafficking from a gender angle. We argue that migration, migrant smuggling and trafficking in women and girls are cross-cutting issues as well as policy domains. Combating smuggling and trafficking therefore requires an integrated policy approach that ensures that policies, laws, programmes and services recognise and address the specific needs, and gendered challenges and vulnerabilities of women at home and women and girl migrants, as well as those of LGBTQI2S+ migrants.