Human Trafficking in Africa: New Paradigms, New Perspectives

ISBN-13: 9783030821654 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 403 str.

Alecia Dionne Hoffman; Sabella Ogbobode Abidde

Opis

This edited volume examines the contemporary practice of human trafficking on the African continent. It investigates the scourge of human trafficking in Africa from the broader international and regional perspectives as well as from a country-specific context. Written by a multi-disciplinary panel of academics and practitioners, the book is divided into three sections that highlight a wide range of issues. Section One examines the theoretical and legal challenges of trafficking. Section Two focuses on the regional and nation-state perspectives of human trafficking along with selected cases of trafficking. Section Three highlights the impact of trafficking on youth, with specific attention given to child soldiering and female victims of trafficking. Providing a multi-faceted approach to a problem that crosses multiple disciplines, this volume will be useful to scholars and students interested in African politics, African studies, migration, human rights, sociology, law, and economics as well as members of the diplomatic corps, governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations.

Spis treści

Section One: Theoreties, Protocols, and Policy Framework.- Chapter 1: Evaluation of the Narrative Paradigm and Knowledge Gap Theories in Interrogating Human Trafficking in the Nigerian Context.- Chapter 2: Extending the International Criminal Court’s Jurisdiction to Corporate Entities.- Chapter 3: The African Union and the European Union: The Effectiveness of Legal Instruments to Curb Human Trafficking from Africa.- Chapter 4: Human Trafficking in Africa: Strategies for Combatting the Menace.- Chapter 5: A Legal Appraisal on Human Trafficking at Sea.- Chapter 6: Understanding Technology and Human Trafficking in Africa.- Chapter 7: How to Combat Human Trafficking on the Continent.- Section Two: Global and Regional Perspectives.- Chapter 8: Trafficking in Persons in Tunisia: Between Law and Reality, the View on the Situation of Women Victims of Transnational Trafficking”.- Chapter 9: A Comprehensive Analysis of Global Human Trafficking-Spotlight on North African Region.- Chapter 10: Trafficking in Body Parts and Human Organs for Commercial Purposes in Africa.- Chapter 11: Human Trafficking and Tales of ‘Backway’ Returnees in the Gambia.- Chapter 12: Poverty and Human Trafficking: A Critical Analysis of Selected Nigerian Video Films.- Chapter 13: Human Trafficking and Violation of Girls’ Rights to Education in Sub-Saharan Africa.- Chapter 14: Human Trafficking in Southern Africa.- Section Three: Child Soldiers and Female Victims.- Chapter 15: Sex Trafficking of Girls: The African Story and Experience.- Chapter 16: “Vidomegon” and the Intricacy of Child Exploitation and Trafficking in the Benin Republic.- Chapter 17: Child Soldiering and its Violence to Children and Humanity: The African Experience.- Chapter 18: The Menace of the Use of Child Soldiers in Conflicts: A New Threat to Regional Security in Africa.- Chapter 19: Child Soldiering in Somalia in the Context of Terrorism.- Index.

O autorze

Alecia Dionne Hoffman is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Alabama State University, US, where she teaches courses in international politics, political science seminar, and American politics. She received her PhD from Clark Atlanta University in political science with concentrations in African, international, comparative, and American politics. Her specialties are African politics, international politics and development, Sino-African relations, and American politics. 

Sabella Ogbobode Abidde is a Professor of Political Science and member of the graduate faculty at Alabama State University, US, where he teaches courses in comparative politics, international relations, African politics and institutions, senior seminar classes, and the politics of developing nations. He received his PhD from Howard University in African politics, world affairs, public policy and development studies. He is a multidisciplinary scholar with regional focus on Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean.