Unmaking Migrants: Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking

Stacey Vanderhurst

Published by Cornell University Press 2022

Unmaking Migrants

Nigeria's Campaign to End Human Trafficking

Stacey Vanderhurst

In the series Police/Worlds: Studies in Security, Crime, and Governance

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501763540

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About this book

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.

Author / Editor information

Stacey Vanderhurst is Assistant Professor at the Univeristy of Kansas.

Reviews

Wale Adebanwi, University of Pennsylvania, author of Authority Stealing:

Unmaking Migrants reveals and interrogates what it means to live a dignified life within and beyond the ambit of the national economy and global governance. Drawing on the lived experiences of young women, it redefines their agency, mobility, and empowerment. An important and exciting book.

Rebecca Galemba, University of Denver, author of Contraband Corridor:

Unmaking Migrants eloquently dismantles divisions between smuggling, migration, and trafficking in order to demonstrate how the counter-trafficking agenda is marshalled to discourage migration and reform women's desires. A must-read that demands we critically rethink the trafficking agenda.

Kevin Lewis O'Neill, Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto:

Urgent and unsettling, Unmaking Migrants is a powerful ethnography based on years of fieldwork and a vast trove of perspectives. It raises brilliant questions about justice, complicity, and the possibility of rehabilitation itself in Nigeria and beyond.

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Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 210
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 10
- Images: 9
- Tables: 1
- Other: 9 b&w halftones, 1 chart
Keywords: women trafficking in Nigeria; how to prevent human trafficking; womens rights in Nigeria; human trafficking victims; border security and policing of migrants

eBook

Published: June 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781501763540