Trafficking often transpires through deceptive practices, trafficking for labour and sexual exploitation is a grave concern among the adivasis in the hinterlands of simdega district of Jharkhand. Deception, such as false job promises, marriage, higher income, better life and so on. Adivasi girls nad women migrtae from rural to urban ares to an unfamiliar environment are often vulnerable to unsafe migration that may lead to trafficking. It is a complex and a multifaceted phenomenon, it enggaes social, economic and cultural implications. The NSSO poses, employment, marriage, education etc as the reasons for migration. However, it fails to look into the subjectivity of the concerned population that has their own basic, major challenges.
Simdega had been a hub for trafficking minor girls for domestic work in the metro cities especially in Delhi. The process of trafficking entails the recruitment where they are recruited, hired from interior villages with consent or either are coerced in to the situation encounteruing exploitaion throught out the process of migration. Trafficking had been happening in the rural simdega in the context of migration. Their choices are often questioned by the community and struggles deliberely overlooked. They have their own sets of problems, pertaining to their family needs and their own needs. Escaping Witch Crafting, osctracism perhaps is a strategy to have owning their autonmy and agency in their life.
Women have faced a multitude of hardships depending on specific cultural and social context. societal expecttaions and stereotypes are some of the common experinces and challenges. It has often dictated their roles and has limited their autonmy of self expression and choices. Despite the challenges these young women have learned to negotiate through struggles they had in their lives. They have aspirations, they might have failed in the initial stages but they have rebuilt their lives again.
