Migration, trafficking in persons and slave labor in Italy
International Journal of Development Research
Migration, trafficking in persons and slave labor in Italy
Received 27th September, 2022 Received in revised form 25th September, 2022 Accepted 19th October, 2022 Published online 30th November, 2022
Copyright © 2022, Luciana Paula Conforti. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The article deals with the enslavement of refugees and migrants, through human trafficking and exploitation network by the Mafia, in Italy, pointing to the restriction of freedom in broad sense, due to economic misery, social lack of protection and state inertia in adopting effective measures to contain this type of manipulation of labor. The study is based on the analysis of Brazilian and Italian journalistic and academic articles, foreign literature, international standards and reports, issued by the government and international organizations, demonstrating the need to improve mechanisms for prevention and confrontation of human trafficking to slave-like labor and prostitution. The research was guided by the following question: was the amendment of the Italian criminal legislation, in 2016, to combat the enslavement of workers by the Mafia, effective?
