The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime has declared Nigeriaamong the top eight countries with the highest human traffickingrates in the world. Photographer Elena Perlino has been working onthis extremely important topic for many years, focusing mainly on theItalian connection since Italy has an extensive sex industry based ontrafficking from Africa. Perlino's work attempts to show thecomplexities and contradictions of women's experiences,documenting their daily life in Turin, Genoa, Rome, Naples andPalermo. By collecting stories of women from Benin City (Edo State)- where around 80% of trafficked women come from - this reportagebears witness to the multiple reasons behind women's forced orvoluntary migration. Elena Perlino has succeeded in telling abreathtaking story with elegance; this book became thus a harsh yettouching portrait of one of Europe's most horrific daily scenes.Elena Perlino (Italy, 1972) is adocumentary photographer coveringhuman issues. Her recent works havebeen focusing on migration, humantrafficking and gender issues. In 2013she got the Prix Portfolio ANI,Vendôme, France. Her long-termproject Pipeline will be exhibited atLes Rencontres Internationales de laPhotographie and Gaspésie, Canada in2015. Her work was shortlisted for theMagnum Emergency Fund 2013 and2011. Elena's images have beenexhibited internationally, in placessuch the Lawndale Art Center inHouston, Texas; Les RencontresInternationales de la Photographie,Arles; the Festival Internazionale inRome; the Museum of ContemporaryArt in Genoa; and PhotoEspaña inMadrid. Elena Perlino is based inParis, France.Cristiana Giordano is an AssistantProfessor in the Department ofAnthropology at the University ofCalifornia, Davis, USA. She earned herdegree at UC Berkeley, and has doneextensive research on humantrafficking, mental health and foreignmigration in Italy.Isoke Aikpitanyi is a former victim oftrafficking and now the main referencepoint for Nigerian women in Italy. Shehas published two books on thesubject: I. Aikpitanyi, Le ragazze di BeninCity (together with L. Maragnani;2007); and 500 storie vere (2011).