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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.



Table of Contents

Introduction
1. Crisis
2. Detention
3. Vulnerability Reduction
4. Risk Assessment
5. Sexual Ambition
6. God's Plan
Conclusion
Epilogue

Unmaking Migrants

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      Publisher Cornell University Press
      Published 15 June 2022
      ISBN-13 9781501763533
      978-1501763533
      ISBN-10 1501763539
      Also in:
      African history Gender studies: women and girls

      Description

      Book 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.



      Table of Contents

      Introduction
      1. Crisis
      2. Detention
      3. Vulnerability Reduction
      4. Risk Assessment
      5. Sexual Ambition
      6. God's Plan
      Conclusion
      Epilogue

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