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Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking (Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance) - Softcover

Book 6 of 6: Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance

Vanderhurst, Stacey

 
9781501763533: Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking (Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1501763539 ISBN 13: 9781501763533
Publisher: Cornell University Press, 2022

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Stacey Vanderhurst is Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Kansas.

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Publisher
Cornell University Press
Publication date
2022
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1501763539
ISBN 13 
9781501763533
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
210