Syrian women in Turkey: how the construction of their vulnerability may facilitate human trafficking

Syrian women and girls in Turkey suffer from a gender-based approach in every aspect of society and this relies on multiple endogenous and exogenous features that result in vulnerability. Whilst Turkey has adapted international law into national law to offer some migration protection, there are major implementation gaps in reality. The lack of protection ends up in the affectation of Syrian women and girls' human dignity. Activists struggle with human trafficking, discrimination, racism and patriarchal values which mean that state agencies fail to fulfill their duty to protect against and investigate cases of violence against Syrian women and girls. All the struggles that Syrian women and girls are facing result in some conditions of vulnerability and we are discussing how the vulnerability may facilitate human trafficking.