Services in the Window – A Manual for Interventions in the World of Migrant Prostitution

This book is much more than just the presentation of a project (which, in any case, has been under experimentation for some time now) aimed at helping women who are often minors and primarily emigrants from Albania, the ex-Yugoslavia and other countries of Eastern Europe, Nigeria and Latin America, to abandon the condition of slavery in which they are forced to prostitute themselves and acquire the rights of citizenship which belong to every human being.

The texts were all written by women involved in this project in different ways and with differing roles, and they tell us what is really behind the ‘helping hand’ which reaches out to those in need, regardless of whether the hand belongs to institutional or volunteer services, or to an individual.

The authors reaffirm constantly that the indispensable premise of any correct and effective intervention is the refusal of any schematic, pre-fabricated practices based on models that are in some way reassuring because ‘scientific’ and inspired by norms in the form of a single and totalising idea.