Women in Mixed migration flows under risk for trafficking. A literature review on the Human Rights approach in the identification process

The aim of this literature review is showing the existing studies on the topic of the identification of women victims of trafficking in human beings in the mixed migration flows. Human Trafficking is nowadays considered a serious breach of human rights and manifestation of social injustice, and it disproportionately affects women and children worldwide. In the latest years the global attention about the phenomenon and the anti-trafficking strategies increased. There is a wide consensus among the State that the process of identification of victims is fundamental in combating trafficking, even if it has always been considered a problematic issue due to its complexity and length. In the times of mixed migration flows, it is even more important to early and properly identify a trafficked person, but, at the same time, it has become more controversial: in large migration movements, the difficulty of identifying victims have to deal with the complexity of the composition of the flows that see different kind of migrants making the same journey together: trafficked people, minors, asylum seekers, economic migrants, etc. Therefore, the identification process results to be essential to avoid severe violation of human rights. The article also considers the broad connections between migration policies, migration routes and identification of victims.