... youth migration child trafficking Benin Nigeria gender ...

... Each year, teenagers flee the villages of northern Togo for Benin and Nigeria to farm (boys) and work as domestics (girls). NGOs consider these cross-border migrations “child trafficking” because youth are often seduced into going by the promises of devious middlemen and because their labor...

... as domestics (girls). NGOs consider these cross-border migrations “child trafficking” because youth are often seduced into going by the promises of devious middlemen and because their labor is hyper-exploited. But student research discovered that youth in these villages largely go of their own volition and see...

...-occupied Eastern Europe (“Buried Poems” and “Eshú in Ukraine”) to Afghanistan (“Mothers”) and Gaza (“Gaza Nights”) to the revelations of child graveyards at Indian boarding schools (“Lament”). “Histerimonia” and “Lost Bird” tell the story of women (the author in the former case, a Lakota woman...