scholarly journals Transnational Organised Crimes: An Assessment of Human Trafficking and the Challenges Militating against a Total Elimination in Nigeria

2021 ◽  
Vol 04 (07) ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Lubem, Abado ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Cultural Practices ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
The Social ◽  
Weak Laws ◽  
Total Elimination

Transnational crimes have remained one of the menaces that has continued to threaten global security, peace, and tranquillity, hence requiring a multilateral and multilevel approach in effectively curtailing them. One among these transnational crimes is human trafficking, which has been estimated to be generating $150.3 billion annually (IMF, 2018), with the Asia-Pacific region ranked as the most lucrative .It is against this background that this paper examines the crime of human trafficking in Nigeria, tracing the evolution of human trafficking in general, the efforts at tackling the crime in Nigeria, as well as some of the challenges hampering the total elimination of the crime in Nigeria. Using secondary sources of data for analysis, the paper identified some of themajor drivers of the crime in Nigeria to include but not limited to, poverty and underdevelopment, weak laws and inadequate enforcement, systematic corruption, stigmatization, sophistication and financial war chest of cartels, influence of the social media, traditional and cultural practices, among others. To mitigate the crime of human trafficking in Nigeria, the paper proffers: the addressing of social in equality, creation of more employment opportunities, awareness campaigns at all levels, and the use of ―triangulated nexus of human-trafficking enforcement‖ among countries, among others.

scholarly journals ‘Killing the Tree by Cutting the Foliage Instead of Uprooting It?’ Rethinking awareness campaigns as a response to trafficking in South-West Nigeria

2019 ◽  
pp. 50-65
Author(s):  
Peter Olayiwola
Keyword(s):  
Human Trafficking ◽  
Domestic Work ◽  
Domestic Workers ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Awareness Campaigns ◽  
South West ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Education And Awareness ◽  
Domestic Labour

Child domestic work is one of the issues often connected with human trafficking in popular discourses. The idea of ignorant and unsuspecting parents and children being tricked into situations of trafficking for domestic labour is rife and has driven education and awareness campaigns as keys to addressing trafficking. This paper offers a critique of awareness creation as an anti-trafficking strategy. Based on an ethnographic study of child domestic work in South-West Nigeria and an analysis of secondary sources, this article reviews the ignorance assumption in trafficking discourses. It contends that the existing strategy of awareness creation, often framed to discourage migration and work, misrepresents young domestic workers and/or their parents and fails to address the issues that children and/or their parents are faced with. The paper concludes by arguing for the need to address the structural root causes of trafficking rather than simply raise awareness of individual migrants.

K-pop flows and Indonesian student pop scenes: situating live Asian pop music in an ‘Asian’ Australia

2020 ◽  
Vol 175 (1) ◽  
pp. 20-35
Author(s):  
Aline Scott-Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
International Students ◽  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pop Music ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Commercial Scale ◽  
The Social ◽  
Community Belonging ◽  
Primary Consumers

Transnational responses to globalisation in the Asia-Pacific region have included the flow of Asian pop genres throughout Asia and beyond, which pose a modest challenge to the normative dominance of Anglophone pop globally. Over the last decade, Australia has entered this flow and become part of the market for Asian pop. Iwabuchi argues that ‘burgeoning popular culture flows have given new substance to the ambiguous imaginary space of “Asia”’. Recent growth in the Australian consumption and production of Asian popular music and media coupled with rapidly expanding, diverse and fluid Asian-Australian diaspora populations and communities of transient migrants from Asia, specifically international students, who together form Asian pop’s primary consumers in Australia, highlight the ambiguity of both ‘the imaginary space of “Asia”’ and the imaginary space of ‘Australia’. The article considers Australian engagement with Asian pop from two perspectives: K-pop dominated media production and commercial scale concerts of East Asian pop and the social and experiential dimension of how international students engage with live Asian pop. Ethnographic case studies of two Asian pop events draw attention to the self-contained, socially and culturally demarcated communities of international students in Australia. They illustrate how such concert events express shared identities; a collective sense of community, belonging and agency; and, further, a connectedness to ‘Asia’ and a disconnectedness to the Australian societies that enable their communities and pop music activities.

scholarly journals Interrelación entre la competitividad internacional y el desarrollo humano en la región Asia-Pacífico

2021 ◽  
Vol 40 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-214
Author(s):  
América Ivonne Zamora Torres ◽  
Mitchell Rigel Ortiz Zamora
Keyword(s):  
Least Squares ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Market Size ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
The Social ◽  
Technology Market ◽  
The Impact

Mucho se habla del impacto que tiene la competitividad en el bienestar y desarrollo humano de los países, no obstante, existe en la actualidad un debate al respecto, puesto que pareciera que esta relación es inexistente; por lo que, el presente trabajo tiene como objetivo identificar la interrelación entre las variables de competitividad internacional (tecnología, comercio internacional y tamaño de mercado) respecto de las variables de desarrollo humano, como son: educación, ingreso y salud para la región Asia Pacifico durante el periodo 2010 a 2019; mediante la técnica Partial Least Squares (PLS). La aplicación de dicha técnica es uno de los elementos de originalidad del presente estudio, además del impacto social que representa conocer cuáles variables e indicadores de la competitividad realmente permean el desarrollo social de las economías. Los resultados muestran que existe una relación entre las variables analizadas, siendo la relación más cercana la que existe con la variable ingreso.   Abstract   A lot has been said about the impact of competitiveness on both the human development and wellbeing of the population of a country. Yet, this is a contested subject due to the almost non-existent nature of this relationship. This paper aims to identify the interrelation between the variables of international competitiveness (technology, market size, and international trade) and those regarding human development like education, income, and health, for the Asia-Pacific region in the period from 2010 to 2019; by using the Partial Least Squares (PLS) technique. The application of this technique is one of the original elements of the present study and the social impact represented by knowing which variables and indicators of competitiveness permeate the social development of economies. The results show a relationship between the variables analyzed, being the closest relationship with the variable income.

scholarly journals Socio-Economic Realities at Work: a Study on Female Workers in the SME’s Located in Malaysia

2012 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nwanesi Peter Karubi
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Cultural Issues ◽  
Asia Pacific Region ◽  
Factory Workers ◽  
Services Sector ◽  
Female Workers ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Parent Companies

This paper attempted to critically analyse the social/cultural issues faced by women in SME’s located in Penang Island in the heart of Malaysia. Further, it aimed to evaluate the motives and the impact of changing jobs among the Female Factory Workers (FFW) at the SME factories located in Penang Island. SME’s are mainly based on 5 to 250 employees. However, the technical definition varied from country to country in the Asia-Pacific region but was usually based on employment, assets, or a combination of the two. Some countries had different definitions for SME’s in the manufacturing and services sector and may exempt firms from specialized industries or firms that had shareholdings by parent companies. The trends in many SME’s’ factories were to employ a large number of young girls from rural areas or other neighbouring states. The findings of the study depicted that the young women were often underpaid, housed in over-crowed hostels and some often-experienced sexual harassment and salaries withheld.

Review of Counseling in the Asia-Pacific Region.

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 383-384
Author(s):  
Terri Gullickson
Keyword(s):  
Asia Pacific ◽  
Pacific Region ◽  
Asia Pacific Region
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