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Human Insecurity and Deepening Challenges of Field Research Scholarship in Nigeria

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  • 1. (Department of Economics, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria.)
  • 2. (Department of Intelligence and Security Studies, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria
  • 3. 3 (Department of Political Science, Novena University, Ogume, Delta State, Nigeria)

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The paper explores the link between human insecurity and deepening challenges of field research scholarship in the present day Nigeria. Human security encompasses mere physical harm, incorporating a range of socioeconomic and spatial aspects of human existence. The study adopts a qualitative research methodology anchored on the theory of Structural-Functionalism. The paper contends, though research is confronted with a number of problems; the prevalent human insecurity has heightened field research challenges in terms of economic capacity, free movement within the geographic space to initiate and conclude valid research in the light of associated risks and additional costs.

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