Violence against women on the road of exile
Mar 29, 2023 — All day
The nature of the violence suffered by young women during their clandestine journey is deeply linked to the modalities of their departure from their country of origin. In all cases, there is a lack of awareness of the risks and dangers involved. Women who illegally leave their homeland, whether or not accompanied by a relative or a smuggler, to illegally reach the North, or a woman who is caught up in a prostitution network from the outset and who travels not by plane but by road, are excluded from the definition of the modalities of the journey (road, break, transport, work, etc.). And when they are not entirely excluded, their choices are very limited. This is of course true for women who deliberately and knowingly leave their country to "earn a living" by prostituting themselves in a European country.
Conference by Professor Smaïn Laacher
Smaïn Laacher is a professor of sociology at the University of Strasbourg and an associate researcher at the Center for the Study of Social Movements (CNRS-École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris).
He is the author of over fifteen books including L’affaire Mila. Victime, agresseurs, haine en ligne (éditions l’Aube, 2022) ; Le fait migratoire et les sept péchés capitaux (éditions de l’Aube, 2022) ; Juger la terreur. Le procès des attentats de janvier 2015 (éditions de l’Aube, 2022) ; La France et ses démons identitaires (éditions Hermann, 2021) ; Croire à l’incroyable : un sociologue à la Cour nationale du droit d’asile (Gallimard, 2018).
He was President of the Interministerial Delegation for the Fight against Racism, Anti-Semitism and Anti-LGBT Hatred (DILCRAH), associate judge representing the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) at the National Court of Asylum (Paris) and a member of the jury of the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom (Le prix Simone de Beauvoir pour la liberté des femmes).