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In the case of the girls having more cultural instruments, nearer to the westernculture, above all those who pursue a migratory project of an individual type, onecan see clearly the role of the “anticipated socialisation” 86 to the values and modelsof Western life and consumption. In the others, the impact with the West is moretraumatic and it is more evident the difficulty to find the road to adapt, at leastpartially, to the given situation, once arrived in our territory.In any case the individual resources (intelligence, capacity to resist, autonomy,etc.) do not seem to play a secondary role in delineating the paths and means of“going through” and overcoming the matters connected to the return of the debtand to cultivate and carry out the plans for the successive phase of its extinction.At the same time the Nigerian girls and women seem, as a whole, to have somecharacteristics which mark in a peculiar manner, in relationship with other cultures,the way to stay in the situation, or to discover and cultivate projects for“emancipation” (in the sense of reproducing the mechanism of exploitation towardsnew victims or the autonomous placement in a different dimension of life).4. The “hooking” mechanisms have been widely described in the research.Normally it occurs within the framework of family relations, of a close or extendedtype, or in the context of the network of relations and ties that unite the group thatshares the ethnic origins, the rules and the significance of the relations of acommunity type. This is important both for the role that the family has in theorientation and ripening of the decision to depart, as well as for the value of thepledge of the agreed pact to allow its concrete accomplishment.The role of the close and/or extended family is to be found, as in other cases ofmigration of the youngest members of this group and their start in prostitution, in acontinuum that contains different possible positions:the family participates actively in the recruitment with a view to placing thegirl on the market of prostitution, to ensure the necessary income once theenrichment objectives have been reached, being aware of, if not directlyimplicated, in the activity of the management of the traffic and exploitation ofprostitution;the family is forced to agree to such a situation, even if aware of the risks forthe family member, out of desperation or for a condition of being of serviceto a specific individual or groups, for example to liberate themselves from adebt or to not put up with threats or retaliation;confronting their existence with that of others considered more important, whose style of life andconsumption one knows at first hand or indirectly. The expression counter proposed is “absolutedeprivation”, which commutates the condition of one who does not have the possibility to guaranteemeans of subsistence for herself and her family.86For “anticipated socialisation” it is intended that process of pre-socialisation to cultural models andstyles of life of countries which are looked at as places for migration, which comes in the phase whichprecedes the migratory path and the contents of which are in part available in the media, in part from theexultant accounts of those who have had the experience.