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Bangladeshi context, however, the main focus is on Bangladesh. This chapter will help
to understand the purpose and reasons for trafficking and its impact on survivors. The last
section will depict the studies dealing with reintegration process and the contribution of this
study.
poverty, low per capita income, lack of employment, lack of education, lack of awareness,
family structure, easy divorce, dram of better living, large family size, over population,
inadequate, insufficient and corrupted law enforcement authority (, UNICEF, 1997: 10). Push
factors work strongly to motivate women to migrate in cities or abroad to change own situation.
The same study described the pull factors as urbanization, industrialization, migration, tourism
and development of road links. Again, deception, misrepresentation, exploitation, force,
coercion are often used as the means for trafficking (Bangladesh Country Report, 2007).
These factors create the demand for women and push factors help to supply women all over
the world for sexual exploitation.
brothels where they are 'broken in' through a process of rapes and
beatings"(Human Rights Watch/Asia, 1995: 34). While working as a
prostitute, they experience several health impacts like anxiety, insomnia,
depression, traumatic stress or disorder that weaken their self confidence
and self power to live a normal life. The living condition of prostitutes in
brothel leads them to get infected with diseases (see more in chapter 5).
Lives in brothels often harm the survivors physically and psychologically
and damage their reproductive organs and increase the risk of other
communicable diseases (TIP, 2004). Moreover, transmission of HIV/AIDS
endangers womens