Women Who Cross Borders - Black Magic?

In Norway there has, since the end of the 1990''s, §been reported an increased number of foreign women §in prostitution. The increase has led to changes §within the local prostitution scene, due to the fact §that Norwegian women who support their drug abuse by §prostitution has left the market or become less §visible. The Norwegian media repeatedly describe the §phenomenon by using words such as explosions, §invasions and floods of foreign prostitutes. It has §especially been the Nigerian group of women who have §received massive media attention, as media could §report an increase from two Nigerian women in 2003, §to approximately four hundred within 2006. Nigerian §women were,in the period studied, described as more §visible, not only because of their ethnicity, but §also because they behaved differently from other §groups of women. The public outcry especially §escalated when the prostitution scene became an §increasingly visible element in Oslo s parade street §Karl Johan. Nigerian women were in the public eye §presented, in every way possible, as being a matter §out of place , and as doing the wrong things in the §wrong places.