Social Protection Programmes

This book deals with social protection programmes targeted to people trafficked for the scope of sexual exploitation. It provides empirical evidence on the N.A.Ve programme, in the north-eastern Italian Veneto Region, and its evolution.

Michela Semprebon is Researcher and Lecturer in Sociology and Sociology of Migration at the University of Parma (Italy). She has been the Research Coordinator and Principal Investigator of the EU INSigHT Action (Building Capacity to Deal with Human Trafficking and Transit Routes in Italy, Nigeria, and Sweden), in the context of which she co-wrote several reports and is working on several publications, of which this is one. She has done extensive research on migrants' inclusion policies, reception and welfare systems, migration in small municipalities, migrants, and housing policies. Since 2019, she has been conducting research on human trafficking and exploitation with a focus on protection programmes and, following her experience as a trained legal guardian, on unaccompanied minors and legal guardianship. Some of her recent publications include: "Migration Governance and the Role of the Third Sector in Small-Sized Towns in Italy," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies (2022), "Victims or offenders? The principle of non-punishment and the critical protection of unaccompanied minors exploited in criminal activities in Italy," Sociologia del Diritto (2022), "Towards a parallel exceptional welfare system: the scaling down and out of forced migrants' reception in Italy," Urban Geography (2021).