Migration and Human Trafficking: The Dramatic Irony of Searching for Greener Pastures in Eight Selected Nigerian Literary Texts

The study examines ‘migration, human trafficking and dramatic irony of searching for greener pastures in eight selected Nigerian literary texts’. It also focuses on traumas of Nigerian migrants in the 19th – 21st centuries. The theoretical framework uses psychological and sociological criticisms to explore these aforementioned literary works affecting the Nigerian socio-cultural polity especially the young migrant youths which also imbued to impact significantly to readers in both African and Nigerian societies. The research is library intensive. The findings impinge on racism, social dichotomy of the Whites against Africans which help to highlight hidden agenda on the evils of illegal migration, human, sex and slave trafficking. It parodies on greener pastures that lure migrants to social crimes which boomerang the society. If these suggestions articulated here are strictly adhered to the problems of human trafficking and migration whether regular or irregular and other social vices shall be minimized to the lowest minimum.