Road to Hell: Discrimination to Migration to Trafficking of Women?

Abstract

In this paper, the author seeks to examine the possibility of establishing the argument that the lack of equality towards women, irrespective of constitutional and other guarantees, makes genuine female empowerment a distant dream3. Does female migration establish the fact that females seek opportunities for empowerment and / or liberalisation from their legal, cultural, societal and economic bonds? In light of the questions raised, the paper seeks to explore whether the lack of policies for the protection and enhancement of equality for women is what leads to unsafe or illegal migrations that make women fall prey to human trafficking.