Sexual Exploitation

Isabel Lirola-Delgado

Chapter 92 in Elgar Concise Encyclopedia of Migration and Asylum Law, 2025, pp 536-540 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Sexual exploitation of migrants has received very little international attention because it is strongly associated with human trafficking as regulated by the Palermo Protocol. Due to the absence of a separate regulation, the protection of migrants from sexual exploitation comes from an interaction between states’ obligations and individuals’ rights in a set of instruments combined from different areas of international law. To protect migrants from sexual exploitation it is necessary to make sexual exploitation independent from the crime of trafficking. This would allow for specific international legislation which applies to the sexual exploitation of migrants irrespective of the context in which it occurs and regardless of their legal status. In addition, the fact that sexual exploitation is most frequently associated with trafficking makes it difficult to study or analyse sexual exploitation of migrants either qualitatively or quantitatively, due to problems in obtaining data outside this context.

Keywords: Vulnerability; Trafficking; Smuggling; Slavery; Force labour; Human rights; Children; Women; Gender; Sexual violence (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781802204148
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