Description of the integration initiative implemented
I was 22 years old when I decided in 2005 to leave Nigeria to go to France. I made this decision to leave because of my socioprofessional situation. I was a shopkeeper and my business had never taken off since it opened in 2003. I had stopped my studies to help my mother and my seven brothers and sisters financially. Given my economic situation, a friend explained to me that she could help me migrate to France and find a job. So I decided to give up everything and embark on a migratory adventure in search of a better future.

Personal story
In August 2005, I left my country and began a difficult migratory journey. Not having the means to pay for a plane ticket, I travelled by car to Libya where I stayed for a year. In this country, I prostituted myself to get some money and pay the smugglers to board a boat to Italy. One evening in September 2006, one of the smugglers put me on a boat. I don't remember how long we were at sea, but the smugglers left the boat and abandoned us, explaining that there will be a humanitarian ship that will find us. It was about five hours later that a humanitarian ship took us on board and I arrived in a migrant camp in Italy. After three days, I decided to leave Italy for France with a group of men. We arrived in Paris at the end of September 2006. Not having a place to stay, one of the men I travelled with offered to let me stay with his brother. A few days later, his brother told me that I had to contribute to the costs of the flat. That's how I started prostituting myself. At the beginning, I gave him money because he showed me the place where I had to go to prostitute myself, and he negotiated with a lady for me to have a place in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris). He was not my pimp because I did not give him all my money. I decided how much I would give him each night. I gave him money to help pay the rent at the beginning. When I started to have a lot more money, he sublet me a room in his flat and only asked me for money for shopping and some charges on top of the rent I paid him. I thought it was very honest of him. I worked as a prostitute until 2013 and I was also going to do this activity in Switzerland. In 2015, while I was waiting in the Bois de Boulogne (Paris) looking for a client, I met a social worker from the Amicale du Nid association who made me understand after several meetings that I could leave this activity if I wanted to. At first, I refused to go to this association because she had told me that this establishment is essentially dedicated to prostitutes. Later, I agreed to talk to the social worker who guaranteed my anonymity. I went to this association because the man who was subletting me the room explained to me that it was a way for me to regularise my situation.
I was supported in leaving my prostitutional activity for two years. Knowing that if I stayed in the flat where I was living I would fall back into this activity, I chose to go and live in emergency accommodation offered by Amicale du Nid. The aim was to get a residence permit. This association helped me with my socio-professional integration by offering me training adapted to my situation, but also by helping me to regularise my administrative situation. This is how I trained to become a medical and psychological assistant (AMP) and a nurse. The objective for me was to integrate into French society.
I work in an old people's home in the town of Epernay and I manage to support myself, my son and my family living in Nigeria. I am able to tell people what I do for a living because I no longer feel socially disengaged.
I am now 38 years old and I use other means to have more money, because my salary alone cannot help me to buy my house here in France, to build a house in my country and to provide for all my family. I can no longer say that I am a prostitute because I am no longer on the street. I usually meet men in discos and sell my favours. For me, this is not prostitution but a goodwill exchange. Thanks to this exchange, I am able to make ends meet.
To claim today that this period when I only had the status of a prostitute was a difficult period for me is to lie to you. Indeed, I earned a good living even though I didn't have the papers. I was making a lot of money compared to what I was making as a nurse. The only problem with prostitution is just that the people who do it are marginalised. If there was no marginalisation, I would have stayed in the business. But you could say that I'm still in it because of the evenings I spend with certain men I meet in discos and who contact me every month to relax. Having sex for money is not immoral for me. What is immoral is when you decide to leave this environment and social workers come and tell you that they are going to help you "learn to live normally again" as if you were abnormal before. It's society's view of this activity that is harmful. We just need to change the way people look at it and provide the best possible support for prostitutes who want to leave this activity.

Analysis of the initiative and individual story
Natascha's migration reflects her determination to find a way out of poverty in her country. Having no family ties in Europe, she chose to become involved in prostitution to support herself. The entry into this activity is explained by the context of great precariousness of my interlocutor. Her inaction during the years of prostitution reflects her
lack of knowledge of public policies for the inclusion of immigrant women in France.
Natascha's migration reflects her determination to find a way out of poverty in her country. Having no family ties in Europe, she chose to become involved in prostitution to support herself. The entry into this activity is explained by the context of great precariousness of my interlocutor. Her inaction during the years of prostitution reflects her
lack of knowledge of public policies for the inclusion of immigrant women in France.
Her story underlines the importance of the various French associations that work to integrate migrants in precarious situations and prostitution. The presence of social workers in the field enabled this woman to receive psychological support in order to be able to take steps towards administrative and professional integration, as my interviewee felt that she was excluded and on the margins of society. Through the integration policies for migrant women, this immigrant woman was able to benefit from the support system for people in prostitution, in order to guarantee her physical and psychological integrity.
Presenting the migratory success of this woman also means highlighting sexuality as a resource through which immigrant women expose the complexity of their journey, the aim of which is to complete the migratory project of social ascension. This interview shows that it is still difficult for our interviewee to leave the prostitutional environment completely. Accustomed during her period of prostitution to a high monthly salary in relation to what she earns from her job as a nurse, Natascha opts to continue selling sexual services in a private sphere. She no longer considers herself a sex worker, but sees this occasional activity as a way to increase her income.
This woman's story shows how difficult it is to leave this activity completely. Unlike other sex workers who describe the psychological and physical trauma they continue to feel as a result of this activity, my interviewee believes that she does not consider herself a "victim" insofar as it is through this activity that she has been able to regularise her situation and provide for herself and her family. The interview with Natascha highlights the rejection of all forms of trauma linked to her prostitutional activity. For this interviewee, it is society's view of this activity that is a source of discrimination.

Results and Impact
The social inclusion of my interlocutor allows us to analyse the different means implemented by French society so that people in a situation of prostitution can have access to social rights. Thanks to the support of the Amicale du Nid association, this immigrant woman was able to acquire a professional position in French society. Her migratory journey, which began with prostitution, enabled her to move from social non-existence to integration. Even though our interviewee claims to have gained legitimacy in the host country and with her family, the fact remains that the assistance system for migrants in prostitution categorises this activity as the central element of the identity of the women who engage in it. However, this activity, as my interlocutor's story shows, can be only one component among a multitude of other identity referents. In the case presented, this activity interacted with another statutory referent, which was her status of administrative irregularity. The fact that these migrants are cared for by associations that only cater for this category of people is a label that sometimes explains their avoidance of the organisations dedicated to them.