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Turning to prostitution
A woman left destitute by the asylum system has told how she turned to prostitution in a bid to support herself.
Lina Ndayi Nabintu, now 29, an asylum seeker from the Democratic Republic of Congo, says she trawled the bars and clubs of Cardiff on Saturday nights looking for men who would pay her for sex. -
crying inside
Lina, who now has made a fresh asylum claim and is getting housing and some benefits, told the programme: “Any man who would go with me would give me five or ten pounds. I didn’t have a choice. I was crying inside but there was no other way to get some money.”
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The rules
Under immigration rules asylum seekers who have exhausted all their legal avenues of appeal get no housing or benefits. They are offered financial assistance packages to return home. But many insist they are afraid to return and do not take up the offer.
Because of backlogs in the system thousands are not deported and stay in this country with no legal means of supporting themselves. -
One of many
Lina is one of a group of asylum seekers who have spoken to BBC One Wales’s Week In Week Out programme.
Credits
- Director
- Nick Skinner
- Producer
- Nick Skinner
