Women, Poverty and Trafficking: A Contextual Exposition of the Nigerian Situation
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Human trafficking is beginning to attract global attention as a result of its
detrimental consequences for development. This is especially so in the Atrican
context where the incidence of human trafficking- especially women's Trafficking
has been incrc;,asingly attributed to the incidence of po,·erty worsened by the
nco-imperialist ccpitalist pattern of development culture which maximizes
individual profiteering and well-being above communal well being. Formal and
informal discourses in Social Sciences have tended to link the incidence of
women trafficking with the ri~ing incidence of poverty in the 21st Century
African State.
This paper questions the veracity in the proposed systemic connections between
pove1ty and trafficking especially with regards to women's trafficking in Nigeria.
It will explore the gender dimensions of poverty to unravel the extent to which
poverty as a factor actually drives this incidence. It investigates the assumptions
of the centrality of women's role in increased incidence of human trafficking
in Nigeria using some media reported cases of women and trafficking. Using
the Capability Framework propounded by Amartya Sen and Martha Nussbaumn,
the paper examines how gender inequalitil'.'s and the failure of the State to
guarantee women's human rights weakens women's lack of capabilities and
potentials for seeking societal considered respectable means of employment and
thereby increasing opportunities for women's involvement in human trafficking
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JA Political science (General), JZ International relations