Migration advocates say women are being threatened with visa cancellation along with sexual, financial, physical and emotional abuse.
Prof Jennifer Burn, director of Anti-Slavery Australia, says exit trafficking is particularly invisible when it occurs within domestic relationships.
“This might be in the circumstances of a foreign national sponsored to Australia on a partner visa, who is then trafficked overseas at a later point.” she says. “The widespread lack of awareness around exit trafficking means that this cohort is unlikely to know that what they have experienced is a crime and that they have rights and entitlements under Australian law,” she says.
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