This article examines the vicissitudes that affect the migration trajectories of many Nigerian women who experienced trafficking before arriving in Italy, and end up in Centers for Identification and Expulsion (CIE) for undocumented migrants. Their life stories, collected within the CIE of Ponte Galeria (Rome), revealed violence as "a rule of action" with which these women are obliged to cope with at different levels. Moreover, they highlighted the failure of traditional security approaches to human trafficking, and the necessity to rethink the measures adopted to ensure survivors' protection and rights. As it is conceived, the system of immigration control prevents the full guarantee of survivors' rights, often labelling them as "illegal migrants". Finally, there is the need to extend protection to all survivors of human trafficking even if the crime against them has not happened in Italy.

The article reflects on the Italian experience of the Non Una di Meno (No One Less) feminist movement and the interconnection between the struggle against patriarchal violence and the struggle for the freedom of movement of migrants. By starting from the concrete and everyday battles of migrant women for the recognition of their freedom and their own paths to autonomy, the feminist movement has tried to construct a common battle against violence across borders, without hiding the ambivalences and difficulties that this entails. At the same time, the movement has attempted to develop a feminist perspective on migration that moves beyond merely considering the specificity of the condition of women within migration.