Women State Trafficking: gender, racialisation and state violence in Tunisia and Libya

ROBERTA DEROSAS Borders, lines. Broken. Interrupted. Contiguous. Places as a sequence of stages: arrest, transport, waiting, buying and selling, and then again detention, threats, ransoms, sales, prostitution. Journeys that can sometimes take an incredibly long time. That mark losses. Of loved ones, of family members, of children, of oneself. Different phases of state-sponsored trafficking, already documented in the first State Trafficking report in 2025 and now updated by the same collective of researchers. The Women State Trafficking report compiles thirty-three testimonies gathered between December 2024 and February 2026, bringing together the voices of victims of state-sanctioned trafficking. Women. Just look