Abstract
This article offers reflections about the action of the state in relation to the trafficking of women for purposes of sexual exploitation. A qualitative approach was taken due to the research objectives, and allowed analysis of the movements of the real, based on dialogs established with certain subjects. Individual interviews were conducted with professionals who work in the execution of public policy to face this modality of trafficking in Ceará state. The debate problematizes, in addition to questions of a structural and social order of the division of society of classes, the political and cultural aspects that permeate the universe of human trafficking.
Keywords:
Trafficking women; Sexual exploitation; Public policies