Trafficking in persons has been on the agenda of States and international organisations in order to create global strategies – Treaties, Conventions, and General Recommendations – to help diminish the impact and significance of this phenomenon worldwide. States have signed and ratified these agreements within their policies, with the purpose of prosecuting traffickers, preventing human trafficking and creating better protection mechanisms for victims. A clear example is the United Kingdom. However, in the case of the victims, they are still invisible, often without receiving necessary guarantees that protect them from vulnerable situations.

This proposal aims to explore the type of control strategies that the United Kingdom, specifically England, has carried out and the impact these strategies have had on trafficking victims in the country. Starting from what Souter (2011) proposes as the culture of denial, many victims of trafficking face challenges when going to the authorities to determine their situation and have their own space within the society.

Following these perspectives it is relevant to ask:

What control strategies do the states carry out regarding trafficking? What is the position of feminist theories on this issue? How are victims who have been trafficked to the United Kingdom affected? Why a culture of denial?

Political Scientist from the Universidad del Rosario, Colombia. With an MA in Migration Studies, Development and Social Intervention, from the Universidad de Granada, Spain. And an Erasmus Mundus MA in Women’s and Gender Studies, from the University of Hull, the UK. Main areas of study and interest are: social justice, gender equality, migration, human trafficking, identity and asylum.

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