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As we know from the literature on migration, both profiles are characterised tobe projects which concern young migrants who depart on their own for Europeseeking to fulfil a dream of an economic redemption. In any case, in the first casethe project is shared, stimulated or even imposed on the boy or the girl (evenminor) or to the young migrant by the parents or family and has as an objective thesearch abroad of the means to consent the whole nucleus a more dignified life, ifnot its enrichment. In the second instead, it is an individual project, in the planningand in the undertaking, developed by the subject without the approval or with theindifference of the family.2. Usually in the migratory strategies, which involve minors or the youngestgenerations, the choice of the person to invest of the responsibility to leave doesnot fall on the most weak and unprepared of the family nucleus, but, on thecontrary, on those who present and demonstrate certain gifts. This is amplydemonstrated, in our case, by the girls that live the experience of prostitution inItaly. It appears evident - and the stories collected in this research amply bearwitness to this - that, in general, they present some tracts of personality such as thecapacity for relative autonomy (one thinks of the journey and the story of thosewho have been able to reach their goal having had very few indications on how toarrive there), the determination and the force of character faced with thedifficulties, the resistance to suffering and fatigue, ambition and the desire tosucceed, etc.Naturally these are gifts more present in the young women who have activelysought to get out of the deprived conditions lived in Nigeria. But even thinkingabout the girls whose destiny is hetero-directed (by the family) and forced from thebeginning of the migratory event, the impression is that they bear determinedcharacteristics, the presence of which perhaps guides the research strategy andrecruitment by who, in Nigeria, undertakes this function. This would explain, atleast in part, the fact that, even being fully at the mercy of persons who exploitthem, once in Italy the girls are (and in part obviously become) capable of a relativeautonomy, sometimes of rebellion, often of a “strategic” adaptation to the changeswhich appear in the conditions of life and relations with the context, even capableof a good project idea concerning the future.Obviously these are impressions that only a deep investigation on the spot -placing the attention in a comparative form of the characteristics of the girlsrecruited with those of their same age not concerned by this research study - couldconfirm. An investigation would be most useful to define which girls are “at risk”of being approached and recruited.3. The family and/or individual needs, which represent the backgroundfavourable for the departure from the original context, are however very similar,even if differentiated in the intensity of the conditions of absolute deprivationand/or sentiments of relative deprivation 85 .85We are talking about “relative deprivation” to indicate the sentiment which is born from theconfrontation between what one has and what one thinks is interesting, beautiful, right, useful to have,