Europe — Human Trafficking And Other Exploitative Practices — Analysis On Nigerian Migrants and Refugees (September 2017)

This report contains an analysis of the responses provided by Nigerian migrants and refugees travelling along the Central Mediterranean Route and interviewed in Italy since June 2016 under IOM’s Displacement Tracking Matrix activities. Interviewed Nigerian nationals represent 16% of the total Central Mediterranean sample, which is composed of 10,771 respondents interviewed at around 50 different locations in the Italian regions of Sicily, Apulia, Lombardy, Liguria and Friuli Venezia Giulia. The report provides a comparative analysis of the profile and responses of
Nigerian migrants and refugees interviewed in 2016 and in 2017. 79% of all Nigerian migrants surveyed answered “yes” to at least one of the four human trafficking and other exploitative practices indicators based on their own direct experience; 86% of males and 77% of female responded “yes” at least once; the share of positive to at least one indicator in the total sample responses is 77% among those interviewed in 2016 and 84% in 2017; 52% of all Nigerians interviewed responded positively to at least 2 out of 4 indicators of human trafficking and other exploitative practices (50% in 2016, 55% in 2017); 84% of Nigerians interviewed in 2017 reported of having experienced physical violence of any sort during their journey; Events captured by the four indicators of individual experiences included in the survey are reported to take
place mostly in Libya (98% of all cases), with very small number of events reported to have taken place in Niger (0.8%) and other West African countries.