Securing digital borders: confronting technology-facilitated violence against migrant women in the Euro-Mediterranean
This Policy Brief exposes how digital tools – from messaging apps to social platforms – are increasingly used to target, manipulate, and exploit migrant women across the Euro-Mediterranean. While phones are vital for staying informed and connected, they also create new entry points for traffickers, abusers, and online networks that operate across borders.
The analysis shows how technology-facilitated gender-based violence (TFGBV) reinforces existing vulnerabilities linked to displacement, language barriers, legal precarity, and social isolation. Examples from Italy and Ukraine illustrate how fake job offers, online recruitment, digital surveillance, and coercive relationships can begin long before women reach Europe.
Visit the EuroMesCo website to download the policy brief.
