Unmaking Migrants
Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23550558 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Stacey Vanderhurst |
| Year | 2022 |
| Pages | 210 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-15 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Unmaking Migrants (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cornell University Press (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.7591/cornell/9781501763526.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4317824279 |
| Open Library | OL34364530M |
| ISBN | 9781501763526 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
This book 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 the book argues, migration can be a freely made choice. The book 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.
Agency (philosophy) · Criminology · Ethnology · Government (linguistics) · Human trafficking · Intervention (counseling) · Irregular migration · Political science · Social science · Sociology · Law · Psychology · Public Administration · Sex work and related issues
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,5 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2025 (2) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |