Breaking Bondages: Control Methods, “Juju,” and Human Trafficking

Watt, Marcel van der; Kruger, Beatri

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-63058-8_54

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“…Overall, victims of trafficking are not a “ universal or homogenous group ” (van der Watt & Kruger, 2017, p. 81) and “ individuals do experience coercion differently ” (Van der Watt & Kruger, 2020, p. 948). Conclusively, some participants may have been hesitant about speaking about, or going into details about their experiences with juju rituals and madams because they feared the implications of providing details about their traffickers.…”

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The Role of Juju Rituals in Human Trafficking of Nigerians: A Tool of Enslavement, But Also Escape

Adeyinka,

Lietaert,

Derluyn

2023

Sage Open

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In 2018, the Oba (King) of Benin city in Edo state (Nigeria), a spiritual and traditional leader with significant authority, made a public, spiritual declaration on Nigerian human traffickers (especially those originating from Edo state) and proclaimed that victims of trafficking who were bound by oaths taken during the juju rituals were free. The Nigerian trafficking network relies mainly on juju as a control mechanism to keep the victims bound and subservient to them. Based on repeated in-depth interviews with young Nigerian women and teenager teenage victims of human trafficking for sexual exploitation, this article discusses how juju is used by the trafficking networks to keep their victims exploited, enslaved and indebted. Concurrently, the participants’ narratives also illustrate the important impact of the declaration of the Oba for some women and teenagers in their process to leave the trafficking networks.

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The Role of Juju Rituals in Human Trafficking of Nigerians: A Tool of Enslavement, But Also Escape

Adeyinka,

Lietaert,

Derluyn

2023

Sage Open

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“…The “chosen” places for women's recruitment are remote villages where the women, often young girls in the age range of 16–23 years old, are misled with the false promise of a new life in Europe. Different concrete and symbolic aspects, such as the religious and cultural beliefs, as well as the role of the madame or mamán , contribute to increase submission and fear (Beneduce & Taliani, 2006; Dunkerley, 2018; Ehiemua & Valentine, 2020; Mancuso, 2013; Mannino & Giunta, 2019; Millett‐Barrett, 2019; Taliani, 2012; Van der Watt & Kruger, 2020). The journey toward Europe is studded with horrors and abuses, especially during the crossing of the Sahara and the permanence in Libya (Tessitore, 2022; Tessitore & Margherita, 2020; Tessitore et al., 2022).…”

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The frame of Nigerian sex trafficking between internal and external usurpers: A qualitative research through the gaze of the female Nigerian cultural mediators

Tessitore

Gallo

Cozzolino

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Appl Psychoanal Studies

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The present qualitative study, through a psychoanalytic and culturally sensitive lens, aims at shedding light on the representations of the Nigerian sexual trafficking phenomenon and on the peculiarities of the relationship with trafficked women, from the perspective of five Nigerian female cultural mediators who work in the field of anti-trafficking.A semi-structured interview was developed and analyzed according to the principles of the Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis-IPA. On the background of a complex process of construction of borders between the Self and the Other, the findings show that the complexity of the cultural mediation work is higher with trafficked women due to the similarities in terms of gender, ethnic, and cultural identities. These similarities produce continuous oscillatory movements between identification/dis-identification, confusion/differentiation, and admiration/envy. Sexual trafficking emerges as a complex chain folded over itself made by a succession of internal and external usurpers, which mutually reinforces one another, worsening the mental health of

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Human Trafficking and Coercive Control: Representations in Media and Challenges in Legislation

Murphy

2021

Critiquing Violent Crime in the Media

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Breaking Bondages: Control Methods, “Juju,” and Human Trafficking

Cited by 7 publications

References 18 publications

The Role of Juju Rituals in Human Trafficking of Nigerians: A Tool of Enslavement, But Also Escape

The Role of Juju Rituals in Human Trafficking of Nigerians: A Tool of Enslavement, But Also Escape

The frame of Nigerian sex trafficking between internal and external usurpers: A qualitative research through the gaze of the female Nigerian cultural mediators

Human Trafficking and Coercive Control: Representations in Media and Challenges in Legislation

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