Sweden ranks highly on global gender equality and anti-trafficking assessments, yet victim identification systematically fails. This thesis examines why. Analysing Sweden's National Referral Mechanism and GRETA's monitoring report through feminist institutionalism, it finds that exclusion is built into the formal framework: discretion replaces obligation, indicators are calibrated towards visible forms of exploitation, and state support depends on migration status and collaboration with criminal proceedings. GRETA frames these failures as implementation problems, leaving the structural design unaddressed. As a result, the costs fall disproportionately on women and third-country nationals, while GRETA legitimises the failures it is meant to report.