Re/integration of trafficked persons: handling 'difficult' cases Trafficking Victims Re/integration Programme in Southeast Europe (TVRP)

Publishers King Baudouin Foundation Zones South Eastern Europe Type Report / Study / Data Date of publication 2008 Document main thematic Child Trafficking Total pages 60

This paper explores some of the “difficult” cases faced in the re/integration
of trafficked persons in South-eastern Europe (SEE). In some cases,
these assistance needs are a consequence of the trafficking experience
for example, becoming pregnant while trafficked, suffering injuries
that require medical care and being severely traumatised as a result of
trafficking. In other cases, these factors and characteristics preceded
trafficking and may have contributed to the persons’ vulnerability to
trafficking for example, persons with dependent family members,
persons with disabilities, persons with past experiences of violence and
social marginalisation and persons with no family/social network. In
addition, this paper also discusses the ways in which these more complex
needs are (and are not) being met within the existing re/integration
framework in SE Europe.