
Unmaking Migrants
Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking
Stacey Vanderhurst(Author)
Cornell University Press
Published on 15. June 2022
Book
Paperback/Softback
210 pages
978-1-5017-6353-3 (ISBN)
Description
Unmaking Migrants engages critical questions about preventing trafficking by preventing migration through a study of a shelter for trafficking victims in Lagos, Nigeria.
Over the past fifteen years, antitrafficking personnel have stopped thousands of women from traveling out of Nigeria and instead sent them to the federal counter-trafficking agency for investigation, protection, and rehabilitation. Government officials defend this form of intervention as preemptive, having intercepted the women before any abuses take place. Yet many of the women protest their detention, insist they were not being trafficked, and demand to be released.
As Stacey Vanderhurst argues, migration can be a freely made choice. Unmaking Migrants shows the moments leading up to the migration choice, and it shows how well-intentioned efforts to help women considering these paths often don't address their real needs at all.
Over the past fifteen years, antitrafficking personnel have stopped thousands of women from traveling out of Nigeria and instead sent them to the federal counter-trafficking agency for investigation, protection, and rehabilitation. Government officials defend this form of intervention as preemptive, having intercepted the women before any abuses take place. Yet many of the women protest their detention, insist they were not being trafficked, and demand to be released.
As Stacey Vanderhurst argues, migration can be a freely made choice. Unmaking Migrants shows the moments leading up to the migration choice, and it shows how well-intentioned efforts to help women considering these paths often don't address their real needs at all.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Ithaca
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
9 b&w halftones, 1 chart - 9 Halftones, black and white - 1 Charts
Dimensions
Height: 225 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
330 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-5017-6353-3 (9781501763533)
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06/2022
Cornell University Press
€21.49
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Person
Stacey Vanderhurst is Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Kansas.
Content
Introduction
1. Crisis
2. Detention
3. Vulnerability Reduction
4. Risk Assessment
5. Sexual Ambition
6. God's Plan
Conclusion
Epilogue
1. Crisis
2. Detention
3. Vulnerability Reduction
4. Risk Assessment
5. Sexual Ambition
6. God's Plan
Conclusion
Epilogue