Stacey Vanderhurst’s research while affiliated with University of Kansas and other places

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Governing with God: Religion, Resistance, and the State in Nigeria's Counter-Trafficking Programs
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November 2017

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PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review

Stacey Vanderhurst

Over the past fifteen years, the Nigerian government has stopped many young migrant women from trying to leave the country, identifying them as victims of human trafficking and referring them to a federal antitrafficking agency for protection and rehabilitation. Relatively few women accept these interventions outright, due in part to ingrained suspicion of state officials and institutions. This article uses ethnographic research from one state-run shelter where these would-be migrant women were detained to examine how state counselors there justified their actions and how migrant women interpreted them. Where the moral authority of the state has been depleted, it shows how shelter staff urged residents to find trust in government through trust in God, and how women in turn made claims on the state through religious idioms of conversion and salvation. Ultimately, it demonstrates how ad hoc relationships of governance are forged in one fervently contested encounter between citizens and the state in Nigeria.

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... The idea of choices is central to agency, and in this context, we refer to the agency of individual members of families and that of the family as a whole unit (Crossley, 2022). The latter reflects how families could (not) decide to put their daughters at risk of trafficking, notwithstanding the influence of defective structures (Pancieri, 2017;Vanderhaust, 2017;Puigvert et al, 2021). ...

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Complex roles of families in enabling sex trafficking in Edo, Nigeria
Governing with God: Religion, Resistance, and the State in Nigeria's Counter-Trafficking Programs
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  • November 2017

PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review