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Title: HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN FICTION. A STUDY OF CHIKA UNIGWE’S ON BLACK SISTERS’ STREET AND IFEANYI AJAEGBO’S SARAH HOUSE
Authors: BABAYEMI, DOYINSOLA DAMILOLA
Anyalenkeya, Onyinyechi. M
Keywords: BLACK SISTERS’ STREET
Human trafficking
Migration
Prostitution
CHIKA UNIGWE’S
Issue Date: Nov-2018
Publisher: FEDERAL UNIVERSITY, OYE-EKITI
Citation: Agustin, L. M. (2007). Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour and the Rescue Industry. New York, NY: Zed Books
Series/Report no.: DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH AND LITERARY STUDIES;ENG/14/1967
Abstract: Human trafficking is a global phenomenon, and in most cases, women are core victims of trafficking for sexual purposes. The push and pull factors are what contribute to the growth of trafficking, in which traffickers use the pull factors to lure vulnerable women and girls into this global capitalist flesh trade. This study will be using Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street and Ifeanyi Ajaegbo’s Sarah House as case study to examine how women are being subjected to all forms of exploitation and oppression in the world of trafficking. The theoretical approach to this study is Marxist Feminism which reveals how powerful individuals (traffickers) gain wealth through the business of buying and selling of women for sexual purposes, thereby exploiting and robbing them of their self-worth and dignity as humans in a classed society.
Description: Human trafficking is a global phenomenon in which one’s fundamental human rights are being encroached upon. According to the International Labour Organization (2012), nearly 21 million people across the world were forced into labour. Out of these 21 million victims, 11.7 million came from the Asia-Pacific region, 3.7 million from Africa, and 1.8 million from Latin America (International Labour Organization, 2012). The demand for prostitutes contributed to young women being trafficked and forced into prostitution. This incessant need for victims causes traffickers to harbour and transfer victims across states and countries (Lutya & Lanier, 2012). The huge gain traffickers will receive causes them to keep control of their victims by any means necessary, which includes scaring and forcing them to stay (Jakobi, 2012).
URI: http://repository.fuoye.edu.ng/handle/123456789/1471
ISSN: ENG/14/1967
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