Trafficking in women and children: A hidden health and social problem in Nigeria

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dc.contributor.authorAbdulraheem, IS
dc.contributor.authorOladipo, AR
dc.date.accessioned2021-04-20T14:13:39Z
dc.date.available2021-04-20T14:13:39Z
dc.date.issued2010-03
dc.description.abstractTrafficking in women and children recently emerged as a global issue. This study assesed the pattern of trfficking in women and children and factors influencing it. Quantitative and qualitative study designs were used. Women and children aged 15 - 49 and 10 - 14 years respectively constituted the study population. A multistage cluster sampling technique was used to select sample. Quantitative and qualitative methods were adopted. Among the interviewed women, 16.8% had experienced trafficking preceding the survey. The most frequent type of trafficking was commercial sex (46.7%) followed by child labour (34.5%). Educated and enlightened people (57.3%) appeared to be the main perpetrators of women and child trafficking followed by intimate/close associate (32.1%). Contributing factors for trafficking in women and children in this study are poverty (58.7%), parental discrimination favoring boys over girls (51.4%), lack of knowledge of human slavery and trafficking (33.6%) and family disintegration (21.5%) increase in school dropouts, lack of governments' monitoring of trade working environment and poor socio-economic conditions appeared to be significantly associated with trafficking in women and children (p < 0.05). This study therefore suggests that human trafficking could be tackled by, enacting a comprehensive law that specifies severe punishment for traffickers, rehabilitate victim and increasing security at border posts.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipSelfen_US
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Sociology and Anthropology.en_US
dc.identifier.issnhttp://www.academicjournals.org/ijsa.
dc.identifier.urihttps://uilspace.unilorin.edu.ng/handle/20.500.12484/4736
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherAcademic Journals in Medical Sociology , Middlesbrough, UKen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries2 (3);034-039
dc.subjectTraffickingen_US
dc.subjectwomenen_US
dc.subjectchildrenen_US
dc.subjectproblemen_US
dc.subjectNigeriaen_US
dc.titleTrafficking in women and children: A hidden health and social problem in Nigeriaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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